The Difficult Airway Course: Virtual 2021

The Difficult Airway Course: Virtual 2021 is organized by Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) and will be held from Jan 01 - Dec 31, 2021.

Target Audience:
The Difficult Airway Course: Virtual 2021™ is intended for all healthcare providers tasked with management of the difficult and failed airway. This includes Emergency Physicians, Anesthesiologists, Intensivists, Hospitalists, Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA), Physician Assistants, Anesthesiologist Assistants, Respiratory Therapists, Paramedics, Flight Nurses, and Critical Care Transport Nurses.

Description:
The Difficult Airway Course: Virtual 2021 is a new on-demand offering enabling you to “attend” our popular live virtual event held this past fall – on your schedule! This powerful program, delivered on our new AMEC eLearning platform, covers the most vital lessons in difficult and failed airway management. Companion live webinars - exclusively offered to program participants - will offer the opportunity to ask questions and learn even more with host, Mike Murphy, MD.

This multi-specialty course featuring our world-renowned faculty of airway experts will deliver:
• Comprehensive foundational experts.
• Short, powerful talks diving into essential airway topics.
• Impactful how-to videos, demonstrating key difficult airway techniques.
• Expert panel discussions featuring challenging airway cases.

Critical Lessons:
? Engaging, powerful airway talks including:
• RSI & Pharmacology
• Airway Algorithms
• Physiology and the Physiologic Difficult Airway
• Pediatric Airway Management
• Detecting the Anatomically Difficult Airway
• Failed Airway Management & Awake Intubation
• Extubation & Tube Exchange
• Crisis Resource Management / Human Factors

Integrative Case Discussions:
? Benefit from our panels’ lived experiences
• Emergency C-section under General Anesthesia: fetus distressed
• Airway management with severe pulmonary hypertension
• The combative patient with a difficult airway and deranged physiology
• Managing obstructing upper airway pathology
• And more!

Skills Demonstrations:
? Detailed, easy to follow how-to demonstrations
• Bag Mask Ventilation & Bougie Maneuvers
• Flexible Endoscopic Intubation
• Extraglottic Devices (EGD)
• Laryngoscopy: Direct and Video
• Tips & Tricks for Routine Techniques
• Topicalization & Awake Intubation
• Airway Exchange Catheters

Objectives:
The overarching objective of The Difficult Airway Course portfolio of educational offerings is to present a conceptual and practical evidence-based framework for the evaluation and management of patients with a difficult and/or failed airway. This approach accommodates contextual and experiential factors taht impact how patients are managed by different practitioners.

Specific Objectives of The Difficult Airway Course: Virtual 2021 are:
• Identify the potentially difficult airway and recognize the unanticipated difficult and failed airway.
• Determine the appropriate evidence-based, systematic approach for the management of the anatomically and physiologically difficult and failed airway.
• Understand the airway management medications, including their advantages and hazards.
• Recall how to perform the core techniques of difficult & failed airway management, including bag-mask ventilation, extraglottic device use, rapid sequence intubation, awake intubation, and cricothyrotomy.
• Select the appropriate devices and techniques needed to manage difficult and failed airway scenarios, including when and how to use them.
• Recall communication and team leadership techniques to optimize airway management.
• Extrapolate how the information learned from the first three sections of the Course lead to effective difficult and failed airway management.