[Medical education in clinical anesthesia]

We use an angiofiberscope (AFS), an echocardiography (ECG) and a transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as useful and productive tools for medical education perioperatively. We employed these monitors in the training of 5th-year medical students on general anesthesia in the operating room. A special intratracheal tube with small lumen (3 mm in diameter) for AFS (2.2 mm in diameter), was used for monitoring airway. Medical students are interested in and concentrate their attention on the monitor screen which has a continuous image from AFS. ECG was used routinely to evaluate preoperative cardiac function, while TEE was used during operation. These monitors play very useful role in medical education for students.