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Teaching Endotracheal Intubation Using Animals and Cadavers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Stanley Z. Trooskin ,
Sidney Rabinowitz ,
Christopher Eldridge ,
Dennis E. McGowan  and
Louis Flancbaum
Stanley Z. Trooskin*
Affiliation:
Section of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, State University of New York, Health Science Center at BrooklynUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, School of Allied Health Professions
Sidney Rabinowitz
Affiliation:
Section of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, State University of New York, Health Science Center at BrooklynUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, School of Allied Health Professions
Christopher Eldridge
Affiliation:
Section of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, State University of New York, Health Science Center at BrooklynUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, School of Allied Health Professions
Dennis E. McGowan
Affiliation:
Section of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, State University of New York, Health Science Center at BrooklynUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, School of Allied Health Professions
Louis Flancbaum
Affiliation:
Section of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, State University of New York, Health Science Center at BrooklynUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, School of Allied Health Professions
*
Trauma Surgery, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 40 Brooklyn, NY 11203USA
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Abstract

Introduction:

The effectiveness of using supplemental teaching sessions with animals and cadavers on the acquisition of technical skills of endotracheal intubation was studied.

Methods:

Paramedic students were evaluated for early endotracheal skill acquisition in the operating room and by questionnaire.

Results:

Supplemental practice skills using either sheep or cadavers did not produce a statistically significant improvement in the percentage of successful clinical operating room intubations as compared to a group trained solely using intubation mannequins. More paramedics, certified and in practice, reported a statistically significant psychological benefit to supplemental cadaver training compared to supplemental animal (p<.05) and mannequin (p<.05) training.

Conclusion:

Adjunctive teaching sessions using animals or cadavers do not improve the acquisition of initial technical success in clinical intubation over the use of the mannequin alone.

Keywords

endotracheal intubationtrainingcadaversanimalsskill acquisitionpsychological advantageseducation
Type
Educator
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 179 - 182
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1992

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