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Table 2 Items assessed on skills competency assessment

From: A deployable curriculum with 3D printed skills trainers for altered airway management

1. Can learner identify an inner cannula, obturator, pilot balloon, and outer cannula?

2. Can learner assemble and successfully place a tracheostomy tube?

3. Can learner suction a tracheostomy with a flexible suction catheter?

4. Can learner place a laryngectomy tube?

5. Can learner establish ventilation if a laryngectomy patient needs positive pressure ventilation?

(Options include placing cuffed trach or endotracheal tube in stoma)

  1. Items assessed on the skills competency assessment at the conclusion of the course