Instructors spend significant classroom time teaching where to hear specific heart and lung sounds. Students must learn where the base heart sound may be best heard or where the bell should be placed to hear stress or wheezing in a young child. Site specificity is obtained through an exciting new “wireless” technique in which the student uses anatomic landmarks on the manikin to locate the site where a specific sound should be heard. If correct, they will hear the appropriate sound through the stethoscope and/or external speakers.
Fully articulating head, neck and jaw permitting head-tilt/chin lift, jaw thrust and neck extension into the sniffing position
Anatomically accurate mouth, tongue, airway and esophagus designed to illustrate the profound differences between intubating an infant, a child or an adult
Soft neck with cricocartilage permits classic Sellick maneuver
Realistic chest rise during ventilation
Realistic trachea, bronchi and lungs. Observable bilateral lung expansion under positive pressure ventilation
Airway narrows below vocal cords
Realistic vocal cords with “fish-eye” appearance
Airway diameter
Airway allows the passage of a cuffed ET tube
Nasal passage permits placement of NP tube
Surgical placement of tracheostomy tube
Emergency needle cricothyrotomy stick
Bilateral tension pneumothorax decompression
Six neck collars, three cricocartilages, membrane tape