Introduction: Endotracheal intubation is a vital life-saving skill required by physicians in life-threatening situations and out of the hospital. Medical students are exposed to these procedures mainly as they rotate through department Anaesthesia, their subspecialty posting Surgery. In this study, we sought assess ease learning endotracheal medical skills laboratory using an adult-sized (Laerd...

The theoretical knowledge and practical performance of 166 lay people attending a short cardiopulmonary resuscitation course were evaluated according to the American Heart Association standards. Before tt course no participant was able to perform even a bad attempt at cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Theoretical knowledge was good at the end of the course and at the refresher course six months la...

Evaporative resistance has been widely used to describe the evaporative heat transfer property of clothing. It is also a critical variable in heat stress models for predicting human physiological responses in various environmental conditions. At present, sweating thermal manikins provide a fast and cost-effective way to determine clothing evaporative resistance. Unfortunately, the measurement r...

Following the growing interest in the further development of manikins to simulate human thermal behaviour more adequately, thermo-physiological human simulators have been developed by coupling a thermal sweating manikin with a thermo-physiology model. Despite their availability and obvious advantages, the number of studies involving these devices is only marginal, which plausibly results from t...

BACKGROUND Several videolaryngoscopes are available which may facilitate tracheal intubation in difficult airways. We compared the McGrath(®) Series 5 and the Venner™ A.P. Advance™ (APA) videolaryngoscopes with a Macintosh laryngoscope by studying the performance of experienced anaesthetists using manikins in normal and difficult airway scenarios. METHODS We recruited 48 anaesthetists into a ...