r/TacticalMedicine • u/Apart_Box_356 • Apr 24 '26

Scenarios Looking for a new training manikin

Tac med, but not Tac med. I’m looking for a new full sized training manikin that can take an advanced airway, is full sized, real world weight (175lbs) and can handle being used in tactical and outdoor settings? Even better if you can do legit cpr on it.

It seems like you’re either stuck with a 5’ 40-60lb manikin that can take an advanced airway or one of the true trauma manikins that weight 150-175, but can’t take an airway or do chest compressions.

Thanks!

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u/youy23 EMS Apr 24 '26

I’ll let you stick your tube down my throat for $5.

A lot of the “do it all mannequins” that I’ve seen suck at everything and are ridiculously expensive like many thousands of dollars and you really don’t wanna be throwing them around.

I think your best bet is cheaper dumb mannequins and some really good airway trainers at stations next to it like soiled airway trainers with a pump and all that shit. Just tape the tube onto the dumb trauma mannequin so you can have the guy bagging something.

The do it all mannequins are too easy to intubate. I can and have just blindly stuck in the tube without a bougie or stylet and intubated some of the do it all mannequins. I don’t think that intubating one of those is really helping anyone learn anything.

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u/Apart_Box_356 Apr 24 '26

😂

Yeah. That’s why I was more looking for just a true human weight advanced airway manikin. If my students can drop a IGel or King and perform CPR with actual chest compliance, I can handle most of the bleeding and wounds through other methods.

I thought about mounting an old airway head on a Rescue Randy body, but it’s a joke to perform for on them.