For educational use only. All patients, charts, and readings shown are simulated and fictional. No real patient or student data is presented.

Critical Care Education Platform

Run the room,
not the slides.

Stridor turns a lecture hall into a live ICU. Patient cases, a full ventilator trainer, lecture decks and live polls, all driven from one console while every student follows on their own phone.

12 patient cases 8 ventilator modes 425+ practice items
The simulator

The patient is on the screen.

Run a realistic case from the front of the room: the patient at the bedside, a live monitor and an order menu, all on one screen.

Live case

One patient, one monitor, and the orders that change it

Draw a gas, escalate oxygen, start BiPAP, wean him down. A live physiology engine computes the response, the photo of the patient changes with his condition, and the whole class reads the result together. Twelve patients, each a full chart with history, prior labs, imaging and a monitor that evolves with every decision.

StridorVENT

A ventilator, not a diagram.

Eight modes with live pressure, flow and volume waveforms, the loops, and holds to separate a resistance problem from a compliance problem.

Volume ControlPressure ControlPRVCSIMV + PSPressure SupportCPAPBiPAPAVAPS
Change tidal volume, flow, PEEP or FiO₂ and the scalars, the loops and the numbers move with it. Add an inspiratory hold to read plateau and static compliance. Every breath is computed live by the StridorVENT engine. Nothing here is a canned animation.
Lecture decks

Your whole course, on every screen.

A full set of lecture decks, from breath sounds and blood gases through aerosol therapy, airway management and mechanical ventilation.

Stridor lecture library: a grid of weekly lecture decks including Breath Sounds, Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation, Gas Laws and Gas Exchange, Oxygen and Gas Therapy, Aerosol Drug Therapy, Airway Management and Mechanical Ventilation, each with a slide count.
Lecture decks

Push a deck to the projector and every phone

The class reads along on their own screen instead of squinting at the front or photographing it. The decks track the course week by week, so what you teach and what students study stay in step.

Live polling
A Stridor lecture slide turned into a live warm-up question, with multiple choice answers, the correct answer marked, question tagging, and a Go live button so students answer on their phones.
Any slide can become a question the class answers live on their phones. Polling is built in, so there is no separate app to license or launch.
ECG module

Rhythm recognition on realistic strips

Dual-lead strips on calibrated paper, generated so the rhythm holds up to a careful reading. Pick your two leads, read the tracing, and let the class answer live. The same 12-lead engine runs inside every case at the bedside.

Reports

Where the program actually stands.

Class and student reporting broken out by NBRC content area and course outcome, with class accuracy, participation and session history. Export any of it to PDF.

See what is landing and what needs another pass, by outcome and by NBRC area, before the board exam.
Also in the platform

The rest of the bedside.

Breath sounds

Auscultate the patient and hear crackles, wheeze and diminished sounds that change as treatment takes effect.

ABG interpretation

Draw a gas that agrees with the patient in front of you and reason through acid-base and oxygenation.

Concept modules

Short interactive lessons, like the oxygen cascade, that make invisible physiology visible.

425+ practice questions

A bank students drill on their own time, spanning acid-base through ventilator management.

How a session runs

One console, one shared screen.

Cases, decks and modules all run the same way: you drive, and the room follows.

01

Start a session

Open a case, a deck or a module, share the class code, and go. Students join in a browser on their own phone.

02

The room syncs

The projector and every phone show the same live screen as it changes, whether that is a monitor, a slide or a rhythm strip.

03

The class answers

Treat the patient, or send a question and watch the answers come in live. Everyone works from the same picture.

04

See where they stand

Every response feeds the class and student reports, by outcome and by NBRC content area.

Who’s behind it
Tim McMahon, MS, RRT-NPS, RRT, LPC, respiratory therapist, educator, counselor, and software developer.

Built by one of your own.

Stridor was designed and developed by Tim McMahon, MS, RRT-NPS, RRT, LPC, a respiratory therapist, educator, counselor, and software developer. He worked bedside critical care through the COVID-19 pandemic and is now building the tools to bring the ICU into the classroom.

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Stridor is being built with Respiratory Therapy programs, NBRC Board Exams, and critical care simulation education in mind. Get in touch.

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