The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care 2019

The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care is organized by Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) and will be held from Mar 29 ? 31, 2019 at Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is providers who care for acutely ill in-patients, including Critical Care Specialists, Intensivists, Hospitalists, Respiratory Therapists and Critical Care Transport providers. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 21.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Course Description:
The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care is an advanced course designed for intensivists and for hospitalists who are responsible for emergency airway management of acute inpatients. Taught by a world-class faculty of airway experts, The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care™ focuses exclusively on the airway challenges posed by critically ill inpatients. The course emphasizes airway assessment and decision-making to build within course participants the capacity to manage all airway situation they encounter - and to do so with great confidence. Participants practice the most important skills and reinforce their learning with Code Airway simulations. We encourage all members of the critical care team to join us for this intensive educational experience.

Objectives:
• Have a clear conceptual framework for Difficult Airway management in the critical care and inpatient setting.
• Have a rapid and systematic approach for the management of the difficult and failed airway.
• Be familiar with the devices and techniques needed to manage the difficult and failed airway; and when and how to use them.
• Be able to perform a cricothyrotomy.
• Be able to assess and manage a difficult airway extubation.

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