Discover the Aurora manikin, an affordable, high-fidelity solution for respiratory and ventilation training. This advanced medical simulator strengthens critical skills in clinical decision-making, team coordination, and patient care, with a focus on respiratory management, ventilator operation, and Advanced Life Support (ALS) techniques.
Its ability to deliver detailed patient assessments and simulate a wide range of clinical scenarios makes Aurora an essential training tool for respiratory therapists, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) teams, emergency nurses, ICU/critical care staff, and physicians.
Advanced Internal Simulated Lung Technology
Aurora takes medical simulation to new heights with its Internal Simulated Lung (ISL), which is based on the world-renowned ASL 5000® Breathing Simulator technology. This platform delivers a deeply immersive, hands-on training experience and features a tetherless design to enable lifelike ventilator interactions—ideal for training healthcare professionals.
Aurora is compatible with nearly any mode of ventilation. It accurately simulates respiratory mechanics, maintains therapeutic PEEP levels, and breathes spontaneously while being ventilated, preparing clinicians for a wide range of ventilation scenarios.
Real-Time Feedback for BVM Ventilation Training
Aurora is designed to teach and enhance bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilation skills for healthcare professionals. Users can practice and refine BVM technique across a range of clinical scenarios while receiving real-time feedback on critical parameters such as tidal volume, airway pressure, and respiratory rate. Aurora’s advanced sensors and feedback systems recreate the complexities of real respiratory emergencies, providing learners with a realistic and challenging training environment.
Mastering Non-Invasive Ventilation Techniques
Aurora provides hands-on training with non-invasive ventilation strategies, including management of respiratory conditions using CPAP and BiPAP systems. Aurora helps clinicians develop the competence and confidence to apply non-invasive ventilation techniques effectively and safely in clinical settings.
Realistic Critical Care Ventilation Training
The Aurora manikin is an essential training tool for critical care and ICU teams, delivering authentic ventilator interactions, alarm responses, and patient physiologic reactions. It reproduces a wide range of patient conditions and disease states such as asthma, COPD, ARDS, and emphysema. Additionally, it simulates spontaneous breathing during ventilation, spanning patients with weak respiratory efforts to those ready for extubation, bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and hands-on clinical practice.
Key Training Features of the Aurora Manikin:
Highly realistic ventilation training at an affordable cost
Compatible with clinical equipment, including bag-valve mask (BVM), non-invasive ventilation (CPAP/BiPAP), and ICU ventilators
Ideal for team-based training thanks to comprehensive patient assessment features
Provides dynamic feedback via chest rise, integrated imaging (x-ray and CT), realistic auscultation sounds, and an interactive patient monitor interface
Supports patient transport simulations with wireless operation
Includes a debriefing environment with objective simulation data, plus real-time feedback for BVM ventilation and CPR
Features intuitive software for easy patient simulation management and custom scenario creation
Aurora’s key simulation capabilities underscore its role as an invaluable asset in medical education, particularly for those specializing in respiratory therapy and critical care.
Detailed Technical Specifications
Advanced Respiratory Mechanics:
Aurora offers intricate respiratory simulations with adjustable parameters for resistance, compliance, and breath rate, along with a high maximum tidal volume and the ability to hold substantial PEEP. Unique features include:
Resistance – 8 to 150 cmH20/L/s
Compliance – 3 to 150 mL/cmH20
Breath rate – passive to 100 bpm
Patient effort (muscle pressure) – 0 to 50 cmH20
Neural inspiratory time – 0.1 to 3.6 seconds
Tidal volume – Maximum 900 mL
Holds PEEP > 20 cmH20
Simulate tracheal as well as left and right bronchial resistance
Simulate independent inspiratory and expiratory resistance
Simulate independent left and right lung compliance
Control patient’s work of breathing with variable patient effort
Spontaneous breathing recognized by a real mechanical ventilator
Virtual Ventilator software included for fully software-based simulations
Intuitive Simulation Control
Control features include:
Pre-built lung models and scenarios provided by IngMar Medical
Save custom lung models and scenarios
Trigger a cough breath during simulation with one click
Randomize lung parameters within predefined boundaries
Trend each lung parameter individually
Vary lung parameters during a scenario with immediate impact on ventilator waveforms
Change ventilation modes (e.g., volume to pressure control) seamlessly on the same patient without altering patient settings or interrupting the simulation
Comprehensive Patient Assessment and Psychomotor Skills Training
The Aurora manikin supports adult and pediatric simulations (12 years and older), featuring:
Anatomically realistic chest movement
Unilateral and bilateral chest movement
An anatomically correct airway that allows realistic oral and nasal intubation using OPA, NPA, iGel, LMA, LT, and ETT
Vascular access (IV/IO)
Head tilt and chin lift
CPR with real-time feedback
Bag-valve-mask training with real-time feedback
Gastric insufflation
Esophageal intubation
Tetherless capability (runs without wall power for at least 2 hours)
Connect software wirelessly
Realistic, durable skin
True-to-life patient monitor provides learners with real-time assessments during simulation
Library of EKG and CO2 waveforms
12 lead ECG display
Heart, lung, and bowel sound auscultation
Versatile Ventilation Scenario Applications:
Aurora interacts realistically with all modes of ventilation including pressure- and volume-control, and spontaneous modes such as Pressure Support, ASV, and PAV
Interacts realistically with bag-valve mask (BVM) and non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
Simulate any type of patient-ventilator dyssynchrony scenario (inspiratory, expiratory, trigger, and cycle)
Simulate spontaneous breathing trials and patient weaning scenarios
Delivery Content
Aurora manikin with advanced respiratory and lung-simulation technology
Windows-based tablet with pre-installed RespiSim® Software
Windows-based tablet with pre-installed RespiSim® Patient Monitor application
Manikin charger
Manikin consumables package including tape, lubricant, IV cannulation pad-forearm, IV cannulation pad-dorsal, humeral IO replacement, and humeral IO extra fat