Pyng Medical acquires rights to emergency surgical airway trainer

According to the company, the trainer, code named ‘SEATD’ (Stock Emergency Airway Training Device), provides dynamic anatomical replication, enabling superior, realistic teaching and training scenarios for all surgical airway instruments and techniques.

It is said to be the first and only flexible training device that replicates the tracheal anatomy, integrating skin, cricothyroid structure, membrane and trachea in an economic, replaceable module. SEATD utilizes a synthetic ‘skin’ that is a better analog to human skin than any other commercial kit, providing true feel and ‘cuttability’ of actual patient skin, the company said.

Cric is a lightweight handheld device that reportedly incorporates all necessary instruments including a depth-controlled scalpel in an easy-to-use, ergonomically designed system. In addition to funding support from the US Department of Defense, Cric has been specifically designed as a standard piece of lifesaving equipment for use by medics under very difficult conditions, the company added.

David Christie, president and CEO of Pyng Medical, said: It is critically important to facilitate simple and realistic training for medics and physicians on emerging new life-saving technologies to accelerate the rate of market adoption. The SEATD prototype has been extremely well received by medical practitioners in both field use and clinical settings, and that bodes extremely well for future Cric sales.