The Difficult Airway Course: Anesthesia (Mar 06 ‐ 08, 2026)

The Difficult Airway Course: Anesthesia is organized by Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) and will be held from Mar 06 - 08, 2026 at Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America.

Description:
The Difficult Airway Course: Anesthesia was created by airway experts in Anesthesiology and is continuously updated to incorporate the latest advancements in the field. Taught by a faculty with an unparalleled passion for teaching, this advanced program features hands-on sessions and coaching throughout to enhance skills in these areas:

• Defensible decision-making in difficult airway management, including skills in awake tracheal intubation.
• The 'can't intubate / can't oxygenate' emergency is a rare yet potentially fatal event. A surgical airway can save this situation - join us to learn this live-saving skill.
• Extubation skills, including when and how to use airway exchange catheters.
• Crisis team leadership and communication skills - empowering your team and yourself.

Our hands-on, intensely interactive approach to learning emphasizes the evidence, reinforces skills and provides the assurance of being at the leading edge of airway management.

Purpose & Objectives: 
This course is designed to provide participants with state-of-the-art information and hands-on experience with the most critical elements of airway management to ensure effective and appropriate management of the airway.

Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

• Perform an airway assessment to predict difficulty.
• Describe the key elements of the difficult airway.
• Describe the steps of awake intubation.
• Identify a failed airway, and describe and perform an effective response.
• Perform an emergency surgical airway.
• Demonstrate safe extubation and tube exchange techniques, including the use of airway exchange catheters.
• Be aware of effective communication techniques, team leadership and other human factors to optimize airway management.
• Identify airway management techniques for treating highly infectious viral patients.

Hands-on Training in Crucial Airway Techniques:

• Awake Intubation — When & How
• Topical Anesthesia
• Open Cricothyrotomy
• Extubation and Tube Exchange
• Crisis Team Leadership
• Video Laryngoscopy
• Flexible Endoscopic Intubation
• Lighted and Fiberoptic Intubating Stylets and Guides
• Techniques for the Obese Patient
• Simulation Case Reinforcing Cognitive Information

Highlights Include:
Thousands of physicians world-wide come to our course for intensive training in the most critical elements of difficult airway management. Highlights include:

• Instruction by a world-class faculty of airway experts with an unparalleled passion for teaching.
• Content, techniques and “pearls” that benefit even the most experienced providers.
• Hands-on sessions featuring challenging Code Airway™ stations.
• Focus on difficult airway management, difficult extubation, failed airway management and crisis team leadership.
• Dynamic and interactive learning environment.
• Up-to-date evidence

Note: Enrollment in this program is limited, so register early – add the workshop to your course registration below.