An Inexpensive Training Model for Securing an Emergency Airway

Simulation can be an effective teaching strategy for developing psychomotor skills, especially for trainee doctors and nurses. In this article we give a detailed account on designing and assembling a model that can be used in training of securing an airway (this was initially used for training during the covid pandemic) and its various uses.

To impart the training of securing an emergency airway by a tracheostomy to the ENT trainees and surgeons, anaesthesiologist, intensivists and related health care workers, an inexpensive teaching and training model for tracheostomy was designed. Material easily available in all hospitals was used to fabricate this inexpensive (< 1$) training model.

The sessions using this simple model during the Covid pandemic was very effective in imparting the knowledge and the training the health personnel in the steps to be followed during the tracheostomy procedure to reduce aerosol generation.

Simulation can be an effective teaching strategy for developing psychomotor skills, especially for trainee doctors and nurses. This low cost, easily available and reusable training model for airway procedures may be considered as a tool to learn and train on how to secure an emergency airway.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12070-025-05447-y.