Airway Fire

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Airway Fire is a Magic Leap app built to visualize combustion when dealing with intubated patients who are receiving high concentrations of oxygen. Smoke, fire, and water particles are rendered directly onto a mannequin, pictured above at the School of Nursing and Health Studies' Simulation Hospital. 

  • Airway fire are low frequency, high acuity events in the operating room.
  • Intubated patients receive oxygen in various concentrations, which could lead to an airway fire in certain situations.

  • Healthcare professionals must be able to recognize the incident and react quickly.
  • This mixed reality application allows faculty to play out scenarios for the students to teach and train them on how to manage airway fires.

Benefits: experience is contained, and easily repeatable. In addition, this exercise increases readiness of students in healthcare professions.

Fire in the Operating Room: Use of Mixed Reality Simulation with Nurse Anesthesia Students

Student Shing Cheng
Faculty

Juan E. Gonzalez, PhD, CRNA (Primary Faculty)

Greta Vladinov, DNP, CRNA (Contributor)

Nicole Gomez-Gonzaga, DNP, CRNA (Contributor)

Linda Wunder, PhD, CRNA (Contributor)

Shayne Hauglum, PhD, CRNA (Contributor)
College School of Nursing and Health Sciences