The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care (Oct 15 - 17, 2021)

The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care is organized by Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) and will be held from Oct 15 - 17, 2021 at Hilton Denver City Center, Denver, Colorado, 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.

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.

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
• Express a clear conceptual framework for Difficult Airway management in the critical care and inpatient setting.
• Identify a rapid and systematic approach for the management of the difficult and failed airway.
• Recognize 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.
• Identify airway management techniques for treating highly infectious viral patients.

Setting the Standard:
Highlights of this intensive Course include:
• How to predict a difficult airway
• How to prevent a failed airway
• When — and when NOT — to use medication
• How to perform an awake intubation
• Tube exchange and extubation of the difficult airway
• Front of neck access / cricothyrotomy
• Practical strategies in crisis management and human factors
• Hands-on practice with proven airway devices, including video larygoscopy
• Code Airway™ stations
• Preparation for challenging acute inpatient scenarios, including:
? Upper airway obstruction
? Airway management in the massively obese patient
? Tracheostomy issues, including accidental dislodgement
? Agitated hemodynamically unstable patient who self-extubates
? The bleeding, traumatized, and vomit-filled airway
? The can’t intubate/can’t ventilate situation
• Instruction by a world-class faculty of airway experts
• Dynamic and interactive learning environment

Hands-On Training in Crucial Airway Techniques:
• Percutaneous and surgical cricothyrotomy
• Direct laryngoscopy and Video laryngoscopy
• Flexible bronchoscopy and laryngeal mask ventilation
• Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
• Extraglottic devices
• Awake intubation
• Flexible endoscopic intubation
• Pediatric airway skills
• Techniques for the obese patient
• and more!