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The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care™ focuses exclusively on the airway challenges posed by critically ill inpatients. This advanced course is designed for intensivists and for hospitalists who are responsible for emergency airway management of acute inpatients. We understand that plans can change for many reasons, resulting in the need to change your registration. To ensure fairness and transparency, we’ve developed policies that are as accommodating as possible. Our Cancellation and Transfer policies are summarized below – please click here to see the full text of these.
Cancellation
The following fee schedule applies to all cancellations regardless of the reason for cancellation:
Transfer
Alternately, registrants may transfer their registration with a 100% tuition credit under the following terms:
All cancellation and transfer requests must be made in writing to registrations@theairwaysite.com before the start of the course.
AMEC does not waive the fees outlined above due to natural disasters, weather-related problems, travel delays, government shutdowns or similar events beyond our control.
In the unlikely event AMEC is required to cancel a course, all attendees will receive a 100% refund or may transfer to another course.
See our full Cancellation, Transfer and General Course Policies here.
Tuition Includes:
Course textbook, Manual of Airway Management in Critical Care, 1st edition
(© 2024 Wolters Kluwer), and The Airway Card™.
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SCP Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 20.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The American Osteopathic Association accepts for AOA Category 2 credit activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1™ Credit from organizations accredited by ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education) and programs approved by AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians) for Prescribed or Elective credit.
Please check back, accreditation information will be updated as it is received.
2025 Typical Course Schedule (final schedule distributed on-site)
Day 1
6:30 - 7:30 AM
Registration and Breakfast
7:30 - 8:00 AM
Introduction/Setting the Scene
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Essential Skills in Airway Management
9:00 - 9:15 AM
Fiberoptic Tour of the Airway
9:15 - 9:30 AM
Break
9:30 - 11:30 AM
Hands-On Workshops (Rotation)
Direct Laryngoscopy / Video Laryngoscopy
Bag Mask Ventilation (BMV), Supraglottic Airways
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch on Your Own
12:30 - 1:00 PM
Difficult Assessment
1:00 - 2:15 PM
Dangerous Physiology
2:15 - 3:00 PM
RSI Pharmacology
3:00 - 3:15 PM
Break
3:15- 5:00 PM
Code Airway™ Stations
Day 2
6:30 - 7:30 AM
Registration and Breakfast
7:30 - 8:50 AM
Hands-On Workshops (Rotation)
Soiled / Trauma Airway
Flexible Endoscopy / Awake Topical
Airway Ultrasound
8:50 - 9:05 AM
Break
9:05 - 11:45 AM
Hands-On Workshops (Rotation)
Soiled / Trauma Airway
Flexible Endoscopy / Awake Topical
Airway Ultrasound
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Panel Lunch (provided)
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Failed Airway with Surgical Cricothyrotomy Lab
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Code Airway™ Simulations
3:30 - 3:45 PM
Break
3:45 - 5:00 PM
Code Airway™ Simulations
Day 3
6:30 - 7:30 AM
Registration and Breakfast
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Human Factors
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Exchange Catheters
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Breakout Sessions (Rotation)
Post-Op, Altered Airway
Hands-On Workshop: Extubation and Exchange Catheters
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Final Points & Pearls, Wrap-Up/Post-Test