Two EMS World Finalists. One Bigger Question: Is Your Team Ready for the Call That Doesn't Follow the Script?
Laerdal's Advanced Airway Solution and Nasco's Trauma Troy are 2026 EMS World Innovation Awards finalists available through WorldPoint. Here's what each can add to a training program—and why ventilation feedback belongs in the conversation, too.
The airway is contaminated. The scene is cramped. Your team has three things to do at once, and the patient hasn't read the lesson plan.
That's the problem with training only for the clean, predictable version of a call. Learners can know the steps and still need more practice making decisions, communicating, and performing when the conditions change.
Two products available through WorldPoint have been named 2026 EMS World Innovation Awards finalists: the Laerdal Advanced Airway Solution and Nasco Trauma Troy. They address different parts of the challenge. Together, they invite a useful question for EMS educators: Are we giving our teams enough chances to practice the calls that get complicated?
Advanced Airway: Practice Beyond the Perfect Airway
An airway trainer is useful for learning technique. But real calls also demand decisions: What happens when the airway is contaminated? How does a team adapt when access is difficult? How do providers coordinate suction, airway management, and the rest of patient care?
Laerdal's Advanced Airway Solution supports hands-on practice with contaminated and difficult airways, including suction training with fluids. Its airway complexity can be adjusted to suit different learners and objectives, allowing instructors to build from focused skills practice toward more demanding team scenarios. EMS World's finalist description also notes that it can be set up and cleaned up in under five minutes.
That practical detail matters. If a scenario takes too much work to prepare or reset, it may get saved for a special training day. A setup instructors can repeat more easily gives teams more opportunities to practice, debrief, adjust, and try again.
A useful question for your next airway lab: Do learners practice managing contamination and changing conditions, or do they mostly practice the procedure under ideal ones?
Trauma Troy: Take Trauma Training Into the Environment
Trauma care asks providers to work with the space and circumstances they have. A patient may need to be assessed, treated, moved, and reassessed while a team manages competing priorities. That is hard to recreate when every scenario stays beside the same classroom table.
NASCO's Trauma Troy is a rugged, full-body trauma skills trainer designed for repeated hands-on use. It has no sensitive electronics and a water-friendly design, so educators can bring training into outdoor, field, disaster response, and decontamination scenarios. According to NASCO Healthcare, supported skills include airway adjuncts and BVM ventilation, cricothyrotomy, CPR, bilateral needle decompression, chest tube insertion, vascular access, and casualty transport.
The value is in connecting those skills. An instructor can build a scenario that asks a team to assess, prioritize, intervene, move the patient, and communicate throughout—not simply complete one procedure and stop. The right scenario will depend on the learners' roles, protocols, and training objectives.
A useful question for your next trauma exercise: When was the last time your team practiced its trauma workflow in an environment that changed how it had to work?
And What About the Breaths?
We spend a lot of time measuring chest compressions. That's a good thing. But when a training scenario calls for ventilation, are learners getting equally useful feedback on the breaths they deliver?
You measure compressions. Are you measuring every breath?
EOlife X from Archeon Medical, also available through WorldPoint, is a ventilation training tool that gives feedback on manual ventilation. Archeon Medical describes adult and pediatric training modes and an app that can save training sessions for review. For an instructor, that creates another way to move a debrief beyond “that looked about right” and give learners something concrete to improve on their next attempt.
EOlife X adds ventilation feedback to the training conversation, complementing the airway and trauma scenarios above.
Put the Pieces Together With an Airway and Trauma Readiness Review
Buying another trainer is not the first question. The first question is where your current training gives people enough practice—and where it leaves too much to chance.
A WorldPoint airway and trauma readiness review can start with five practical questions:
- What are you practicing now? Map the airway, ventilation, and trauma scenarios your teams actually run, including how often learners repeat them.
- Where do conditions change? Look at whether training includes contamination, difficult access, movement, environmental constraints, and competing tasks where relevant to your program.
- What can instructors observe and measure? Identify where a debrief relies on memory or impression and where useful feedback could make the next attempt better.
- How does the team work together? Examine role clarity, communication, handoffs, and reassessment alongside individual procedures.
- What is realistic to run repeatedly? Consider setup, cleanup, portability, durability, space, and instructor time—not just the first demonstration.
The result should be a more useful training plan, whether that means improving a scenario you already run, adding a missing skill station, or exploring a new solution. We can help you look at the options together instead of treating airway, trauma, and ventilation as three unrelated purchases.
Ready to see where your program stands? Contact WorldPoint to request an airway and trauma readiness review, or explore the Advanced Airway Solution, Trauma Troy, and EOlife X.
