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Course Prework
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. Build mastery and confidence in:
Featuring a dynamic and interactive learning environment, the Course emphasizes airway assessment and decision-making to build the capacity to manage all airway situations — and to do so with great confidence. Read More
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Cancellation Policy
A Cancellation Fee of 10% of the tuition paid will apply to all course cancellations requested up to 14 days prior to start of Course.
No refunds will be issued for cancellations requested within 14 days of the course start date.
No refunds will be granted to those who do not attend the Course without having made prior arrangements for cancellation or transfer.
If a registrant tests positive for COVID or another communicable disease, they may cancel their registration up to the start of the course. A 10% cancellation fee will be assessed. Proof of positive test will be required to initiate refund.
A credit for a future course will be offered to any attendee who leaves during the Course because of COVID-19 symptoms or positive test.
Alternatively, registrants may transfer to another course with no transfer or cancellation fee.
If Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) is required to cancel a course due to safety concerns, all attendees will receive a 100% refund or may transfer to another course.
A true highlight is the engagement of the faculty and their willingness to share their experience and tricks. While the hands-on sessions were valuable for getting to touch and work with the different equipment, interacting with the faculty during these sessions was one of the highest yield elements of the course.
Amazing course! Every doctor involved with airway management should take this course. I can clearly assess my strengths and my weaknesses, I feel well prepared to approach the most challenging airways. The hands-on experienced is key to this course! Thank you for a well-organized and enlightening course!
You guys knocked it out of the park! Not only was the course highly informative and empowering, but fun and enjoyable as well.
I loved the warmth and passion of the instructors. Great group and very accessible. Easily one of the best, most practical and fun CME courses I have had in a long time.
Highlights include:
- Front of neck access / cricothyrotomy
- 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
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Hands-on in Crucial Airway Techniques:
- Percutaneous and surgical cricothyrotomy
- Video laryngoscopy
- Awake intubation
- Flexible bronchoscopy and laryngeal mask ventilation
- Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
- Extraglottic devices
- Flexible endoscopic intubation
- Pediatric airway skills
- Techniques for the obese patient
Tuition Includes:
Course textbook, Manual of Airway Management in Critical Care, 1st edition (© 2024 Wolters Kluwer), and The Airway Card™.
Accreditation
2024 Accreditation Information
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.
2025 Accreditation Information
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.
Schedule Download PDF
2024 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
Course Objectives
Target Audience
Intensivists, Hospitalists, Respiratory Therapists and Critical Care Transport providers.
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