AirwaySkills Course (Dec, 2017)

AirwaySkills Course is organized by College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) of Australia and New Zealand and will be held on Dec 04, 2017 at Clinical Skills Centre Support Building, Auckland, New Zealand.

The target audience for this medical event is Anesthesiologists, Intensivists and Emergency Medicine Physicians. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18 CME credits.

Conference Objectives are :
• Identify the features of a difficult airway
• Apply planned strategies when managing the difficult airway
• Prepare and conduct an awake intubation
• Develop an extubation plan
• Optimise ventilation and intubation attempts
• Choose and utilize alternative ventilation and intubation techniques
• Use the fibreoptic bronchoscope for intubation with a range of techniques
• Conduct emergency airway procedures including transtracheal jet ventilation, cricothyroidotomy, and surgical cricothyroidotomy
• Understand safe airway management principles and apply them to a range of clinical case scenarios
• Use direct laryngoscopy applying first pass success principles
• Apply a rapid sequence induction in a difficult airway

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.