The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency - California

The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency 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.

Target Audience:
The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency is intended for healthcare providers including Emergency Physicians, all other physicians who work in the Emergency Department, Physician Assistants, Paramedics, Flight Nurses, and Respiratory Therapists.

Accreditation:
AMA CME Credit:
Schumacher Clinical Partners designates this live activity for a maximum of 22.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

AAFP Credit:
This Live activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 22.00 Elective credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

ACEP Credit:
Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 22.0 hours of ACEP Category 1 credit.

AAPA Credit:
Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 22.0 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.

Course Description:
Taught by a world-class faculty, The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency™ is the only national CME program that teaches the widely-adopted, evidence-based approach to emergency airway management developed by airway experts Dr. Ron M. Walls, Dr. Michael F. Murphy and Dr. Robert C. Luten. Led by Calvin A. Brown, III, MD from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, the course emphasizes assessment and decision-making to enable participants to manage any emergency airway they encounter. 

This practice-changing program emphasizes small group learning, hands-on sessions and medical simulations that reinforce the learning and provide valuable practice time with proven airway devices.

Setting The Standard:
Thousands of physicians world-wide come to our course for intensive training in difficult airway management. Highlights include:
• Instruction by a world-class faculty.
• Simple, effective airway algorithms that allow for an orderly, reproducible approach to any emergency airway.
• Small group, hands-on sessions exclusively focusing on difficult and failed airways, emphasizing rescue strategies and devices.
• Code AirwayTM stations: Challenging medical simulations to reinforce decision-making and skills.
• Focused sessions on Pediatric Airways, Trauma, Medical Emergencies, Difficult and Failed Airways.
• Detailed instruction in a variety of challenging patient scenarios:
? elevated ICP
? pulmonary edema
? cardiogenic shock
? status asthmaticus
? foreign body in the airway
? direct airway trauma
? multiple trauma with shock
? and many more.
• Dynamic and interactive learning environment.

Hands-On Training in Crucial Airway Techniques:
• Percutaneous and surgical cricothyrotomy
• Video laryngoscopy
• Fiber-optic stylets and guides
• Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
• Extraglottic devices
• Awake intubation
• Flexible endoscopic intubation
• Pediatric airway skills
• Techniques for the obese patient
• and more!

Purpose & Objectives:
Airway Management is one of the most critical skills in Emergency Medicine. This course is designed to provide participants with state-of-the-art information and hands-on experience that ensure effective and appropriate management of airway emergencies.

Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
• Have a clear conceptual framework for Difficult Airway Management in the emergency setting.
• Be able to identify the Difficult, Unanticipated/Emergency Difficult and Failed airway.
• Have a rapid and systematic approach for the management of each of these clinical dilemmas.
• Be familiar with the devices and techniques needed to manage these clinical dilemmas, and when and how to use them.