Pediatric foreign-body airway obstruction
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed6-year-old boy for calm pediatric choking recognition, cough-effectiveness reassessment, qualified escalation, and active-risk handoff. About 7 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Connect the abrupt eating event, current effective cough, airflow, speech, breathing, circulation, and whole-child state.
- Preserve effective coughing and close surveillance while qualified help remains ready.
- At the elapsed checkpoint, recognize the transition to severe responsive airway obstruction.
- Activate qualified responsive-child foreign-body airway obstruction care without delay.
- At the next elapsed checkpoint, activate the qualified unresponsive-child CPR and airway-check pathway.
- Hand off the choking trajectory, active qualified pathway, unresolved obstruction, and unknown outcome.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Joyner BL Jr, Dewan M, Bavare A, et al. Part 6: Pediatric Basic Life Support: 2025 AHA/AAP Guidelines for CPR and ECC. Circulation. 2025;152(suppl 2):S424-S447. doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000001370.
- American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics. Child Foreign-Body Airway Obstruction Algorithm. 2025.
- Djakow J, Lott C, de Lucas N, et al. European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2025: Paediatric life support. Resuscitation. 2025;215:110767. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110767.
- Resuscitation Council UK. Paediatric life support: Foreign body airway obstruction. Guidelines 2025.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.