Patent ID: 8764450

Claim:
A system for medical training of an endotracheal intubation procedure, comprising: an anatomical simulator modeled after a head portion, a neck portion, a cricoid cartilage area and an internal cavity defined by portions of a mouth, a throat, a tongue, a vocal cord, a trachea, a larynx, an esophagus and an epiglottis; an intubation tube; internal sensors located within said internal cavity and positioned on or near said portions defined for said internal cavity, wherein said internal sensors measure pressure and movement induced by said intubation tube along a laryngoscope path and an endotracheal tube path of said anatomical simulator during said endotracheal intubation training procedure; external sensors positioned on or near said cricoid cartilage area, wherein said external sensors measure movement and pressure applied by a user during said endotracheal intubation training procedure; and a feedback display system in communication with the sensors to simultaneously record and display external sensor readings from said external sensors and internal sensor readings from said internal sensors, wherein said simultaneous recording of said sensor readings comprises recording: (i) a sensor reading resulting from direct manual contact by a user or an assistant user, simultaneously with (ii) a sensor readings resulting from indirect contact by a surgical instrument operated by said user.