The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care (Apr 03 - 05, 2020)

The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care is organized by Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) and will be held from Apr 03 - 05, 2020 at Hyatt Regency Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Target Audience:
The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care is intended for providers who care for acutely ill in-patients, including Critical Care Specialists, Intensivists, Hospitalists, Respiratory Therapists and Critical Care Transport providers.

Accreditation:
AMA CME Credit:
SCP Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 21.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Description:
The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care is an advanced course 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.

An advanced course designed for providers responsible for emergency airway management of acute inpatients. Taught by a world-class, multi-specialty faculty of airway experts, the course focuses exclusively on the airway challenges posed by critically ill inpatients. Emphasizing airway assessment and decision-making, the course equips participants to manage any airway situation they encounter - and to do so with great confidence. Participants reinforce learning in Code Airway simulations - hands-on management of challenging scenarios.

The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care will...

Build mastery and confidence in:
• How to predict a difficult airway
• How to prevent a failed airway
• When - and when NOT - to use medications
• How to perform an awake intubation
• Practical strategies in crisis management and human factors

Provide extensive hands-on practice in:
• Many airway techniques, including video laryngoscopy
• Flexible bronchoscopy and laryngeal mask ventilation
• Tube exchange and extubation of the difficult airway
• Front of the neck access / cricothyrotomy

Prepare you for challenging inpatient scenarios, such as:
• Upper airway obstruction
• Airway management in the massively obeses patient
• Tracheostomy issues, including accidental dislodgement
• The bleeding, traumatized and vomit-filled airway
• The can't intubate / can't oxygenate situation

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
• 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 information is available.