The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency (Mar 06 - 08, 2026)

The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency 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: Emergency is the only national CME program that teaches the widely-adopted, evidence-based approach to emergency airway management developed by Drs. Ron Walls, Michael Murphy and Robert Luten.

In this practice-changing course you will:

• Increase mastery of high-risk airway scenarios with new sessions on the anatomically and physiologically difficult airway
• Learn simple, effective airway algorithms for a reproducible approach to any emergency airway.
• Understand the challenges associated with managing pediatric airways.
• Participate in hands-on sessions exclusively focusing on difficult and failed airways, emphasizing rescue strategies and devices.

Led by Calvin Brown, III, MD, the course emphasizes small group learning, hands-on sessions and medical simulations to reinforce learning and provide valuable practice time with proven airway devices. Join us for this intensive training and leave assured you are at the leading edge of airway management.

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.

Highlights include: 

• Instruction by a world-class faculty.
• Code Airway™ 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
• Fiberoptic stylets and guides
• Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
• Extraglottic devices
• Awake intubation
• Flexible endoscopic intubation
• Pediatric airway skills
• Techniques for the obese patient