title: Simulation-based airway management training: application and looking forward.
abstract: Within the airway management field, simulation has been used as a tool of training for over 40 years. Simulation training offers a chance of active involvement for the trainees. It can effectively enhance and upgrade the knowledge and skills of the trainees in airway management, and subsequently decrease medical errors and improve patients' outcomes and safety through a variety of airway management training modalities, such as common airway skills, difficult airway management strategies, and crisis management skills. To perform simulation-based airway management training effectively, not only are task trainers and high-fidelity simulators required but also instructors with rich experience in airway management simulation training and optimal curriculum design are essential.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Ba-Da-Chu Road, Shi-Jing-Shan District, Beijing, 100144, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yu-Kui
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Ba-Da-Chu Road, Shi-Jing-Shan District, Beijing, 100144, People's Republic of China. xuefushan@aliyun.com.
authors.forename: Fu-Shan
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Ba-Da-Chu Road, Shi-Jing-Shan District, Beijing, 100144, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Ming
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 33 Ba-Da-Chu Road, Shi-Jing-Shan District, Beijing, 100144, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhi
mesh_terms: D058109:Airway Management / Q000379:methods*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D012137:Respiratory System; D000066908:Simulation Training / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Airway management training; Airway skills; Crisis management skills; Difficult airway management strategies; Simulation