How Enhancing ALS Training Manikins Can Improve Emergency Outcomes

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Advanced Life Support (ALS) training promises to transform how medical professionals prepare for critical emergencies. This is achieved by providing realistic, hands-on practice that improves CPR training and paramedic training, as well as learning outcomes across the healthcare sector.

Immersive manikins and defibrillator trainers can be used to closely mimic real patients, enabling teams to rehearse lifesaving interventions in realistic cardiac arrest scenarios. The result is that these tools help responders gain proficiency and confidence in managing a cardiac arrest before encountering it in the field.

How Do ALS and BLS Training Differ?

ALS and Basic Life Support (BLS) represent two distinct levels of emergency medical intervention, particularly in the context of cardiac arrest management. While both training methodologies aim to equip personnel with crucial skills, significant differences exist in the complexity, scope, and training tools used.

BLS primarily covers foundational skills such as chest compressions and defibrillation with an automated external defibrillator (AED). Conversely, ALS requires more advanced competencies, including manual defibrillation, advanced airway management, and the use of mechanical CPR devices.

Realistic Training Tools Improve Emergency Outcomes

Modern CPR training manikins have been shown to significantly enhance outcomes by introducing realism and feedback into practice sessions. Traditional CPR courses often rely on basic manikins, but advanced models feature lifelike anatomy and even simulated blood circulation to demonstrate the impact of quality compressions.

As a result, trainees can perform chest compressions and ventilations on these devices while receiving real-time feedback on depth, rate, and recoil. Research indicates that using real-time feedback devices during CPR training markedly improves compression technique and overall CPR performance.

However, this trend has yet to make a significant impact in the context of ALS training tools.

Existing ALS Training Manikins Have Room for Improvement

Despite the advanced requirements of ALS training, there is a notable shortage of manikins that are realistic, robust, and reliable while still being able to meet the demanding nature of ALS protocols. Current training solutions often fall short in replicating the anatomical and physiological realism required to simulate clinical emergency interventions accurately. As a consequence, healthcare professionals may be met with a gap between their ALS training and real-world application.

ALS Curricula Are Highly Prescriptive

To ensure the best possible patient outcomes, ALS training curricula mandate strict adherence to guidelines. This structured approach necessitates training tools that can accurately represent complex human physiology and enable realistic CPR training as well as interaction with clinical equipment. However, many current options lack the modularity and full articulation required to provide a truly faithful representation of human patients.

Robustness and durability are also crucial here.

ALS training often sees manikins undergo repeated and vigorous physical interactions, including chest compressions from CPR training, defibrillation, and more. Many current manikins are unable to consistently endure these repetitive interventions without rapid deterioration or loss of functionality.

Skill Retention and ALS Training

ALS proficiency demands frequent practice and reinforcement, highlighting the necessity for reliable, durable training tools. Effective ALS training not only encompasses initial skill acquisition but also the long-term retention of these critical competencies. Training models must have the capacity to work with integrated feedback mechanisms – something that has been proven to have a significant impact on CPR training – in order to support learners in optimising the depth and rate of compressions, as well as the efficacy of their interventions.

ALS Tools and Paramedic Training

Paramedics operate in high-stakes environments where advanced clinical interventions and split-second decisions are often required. ALS training manikins are a strong way to improve paramedic training by allowing crews to practise complex emergency scenarios in a controlled yet realistic setting.

Emotive and accurate training tools can present a wide range of medical emergencies that go beyond basic CPR training, covering areas like advanced airway management and defibrillation. Learners can perform endotracheal intubation on anatomically correct manikins, manage airways with standard adjuncts, and even practise synchronised cardioversion or pacing using training defibrillators. Crucially, these simulations can be team-based, helping paramedics refine their communication, leadership, and team coordination skills during resuscitation.

This realism has been shown to enhance skill acquisition and provide confidence. Paramedics who train with immersive training tools report greater readiness and less anxiety in actual emergencies, having essentially “seen and solved” those problems during simulation. This draws into sharper relief the crucial need for ALS training manikins that cater to the realism and reliability that are a prerequisite of paramedic training.

Improving Emergency Response and Cardiac Arrest Outcomes

Naturally, the ultimate goal of an ALS training manikin is to translate training improvements into better real-world outcomes for cardiac arrest victims. Enhanced, realistic CPR training and paramedic training using these tools are proven to result in responders who perform more efficiently and effectively when every second counts.

Regular simulation drills have also been linked to better adherence to resuscitation quality metrics in actual emergencies, specifically in areas like maintaining proper compression rates and minimising pauses. The evidence suggests that following these steps helps to ensure that responders can turn a potentially chaotic event into a coordinated effort where each team member knows their role and the patient receives timely, guideline-directed care.

Are You Looking to Enhance Your ALS Training Outcomes?

Innosonian is proud to launch the new Brayden ALS CPR training manikin, which is set to debut at the EMS World Expo in the USA on 20^th October 2025, and then the ERC Congress in Rotterdam on 23^rd October. This is a major step into advanced life support, and it builds on our record as a leading provider of CPR training manikins that support medical teams and bystanders in improving emergency outcomes.

Much like the rest of the Brayden range, the ALS manikin is intuitive and is ideal for emulating real-life scenarios and providing objective, lifelike feedback. We carefully align each and every solution with current clinical protocols and guidelines to ensure that what teams practise in training transfers seamlessly to the field.

If you have any further questions about how we can work with you to improve ALS training outcomes, don’t hesitate to contact our team.