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Abstract
[1] To avoid or reduce medical errors and improve patient safety and outcomes, training for healthcare providers for airway management skills is essential. [2] In the last decades, the number and range of simulation technologies used for education of healthcare providers are growing exponentially because of concerns over patient safety and needs for improving the quality of medical services. [...]as the "culture of safety" becomes increasingly the focus of medical care, it influences the character of clinical skills training and eyes have turned toward the improvement on the training method of healthcare providers. Simulation-based airway management training is a potential tool that can help achieve this goal because it allows healthcare providers to learn, practice, and perfect their crafts without a potential harm to patients. The available evidence shows that simulation-based airway management training can improve learner outcomes compared with no intervention and other educational activities,[1] which is consistently associated with large effects for knowledge, skill, and behavioral outcome measures. [...]the scenario-based training using simulators can enable the trained healthcare providers to manage airway in the stressful, time-pressured situation of an airway emergency, which can provide a realistic training to develop crisis management and communication skills as well as to practice how to use the human and technical resources effectively, that is nontechnical skills for crisis resource management. Given that a large number of studies have demonstrated the efficacy,[15],[16],[17] cost-effectiveness,[18] and advantages of simulation training in terms of patient safety and outcomes,[8],[9] one would expect that Chinese airway educators should...