Christopher Manacci, MSN, APRN-BC
Lecturer and NFNA Clinical Director
Chris has made huge contributions to air medical services and emergency medical
services in general in several significant ways. Chris lectures frequently for
pre-hospital public safety forces, nurses, and flight nurses both in Northeast
Ohio and across the country. Additionally, he has served as a mentor to beginning
flight nurses, first at Metro Life Flight and now at Cleveland Clinic Critical
Care Transport. He has also written several book chapters and published several
abstracts applicable to the field. Chris was instrumental in developing our
current acute care nurse practitioner/flight nursing program where he teaches
two flight nursing seminars and coordinates the advanced flight nursing internship.
Chris is an active participant in several research programs aimed at developing an
evidence base for flight nursing practice. Current projects include identifying
environmental cues used by flight nurses so that future simulations can be developed
for beginning flight/transport nurses and an umbrella project that is characterizing
sounds in the air medical environment as well as properties of noise-reducing
stethescopes with the hope to develop technologies to assist in auscultation in
uncontrolled environments. Additionally, he has worked hard to help secure
funding to develop a flight simulator for providing care in the passenger cabin
of rotor-wing aircraft.
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