A support system for tracheal suction skill acquisition based on augmented reality technology

This paper describes a support system for tracheal suction skill acquisition based on augmented reality technology. A few tracheal suction skill training tools have already been developed and used, but its operating cost is expensive, such as maintenance, storage, and cleaning/drying/sterilization after use as well as its purchase cost. Besides, the tracheal suction skill is a procedure inside the trachea, it is difficult to observe and evaluate the skill because the state of the procedure is to be invisible directly. Our proposed system solves these existing tools problems using augmented reality technology and compact 3D printing models and sensors. The system validity has been verified by evaluation experiments.