The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care (Mar 19 - 21, 2021)

The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care is organized by Airway Management Education Center (AMEC). This Onsite medical conference will be held from Mar 19 - 21, 2021 at Hyatt Regency Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 21 CME Credits. Target Audience:The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care is designed for providers who care for acutely ill in-patients, including Critical Care Specialists, Intensivists, Hospitalists, Respiratory Therapists, and Critical Care Transport providers. Course Description:The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care™ is an advanced course intended for intensivists and for hospitalists who are qualified for emergency airway management of acute inpatients. Guided by a world-class faculty of airway experts, The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care™ focuses solely on the airway challenges posed by critically ill inpatients. The course features airway assessment and decision-making to build within course attendees the capacity to handle all airway situations they encounter — and to do so with great confidence. Participants practice the most essential skills and strengthen their learning with Code Airway™ simulations. We encourage all members of the critical care team to join us for this intensive educational experience. Course Objectives:Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to:• Get a clear conceptual structure for Difficult Airway management in the critical care and inpatient setting.• Have a speedy and systematic approach for the management of the difficult and failed airway.• Be accustomed to the devices and techniques needed to manage the difficult and failed airway; and when and how to use them.• Be able to make a cricothyrotomy.• Be able to assess and manage difficult airway extubation. Setting the Standard:Highlights of this intensive Course include:• How to predict a difficult airway• How to prevent a failed airway• When — and when NOT — to use medication• How to perform an awake intubation• Tube exchange and extubation of the difficult airway• Front of neck access/cricothyrotomy• Practical strategies in crisis management and human factors• Hands-on practice with proven airway devices, including video laryngoscopy• 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○ An 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 Hands-On Training in Crucial Airway Techniques:• Percutaneous and surgical cricothyrotomy• Direct laryngoscopy and Video laryngoscopy• Flexible bronchoscopy and laryngeal mask ventilation• Optically enhanced laryngoscopy• Extraglottic devices• Awake intubation• Flexible endoscopic intubation• Pediatric airway skills• Techniques for the obese patient• and more! https://www.theairwaysite.com/a-course/the-difficult-airway-course-critical-care/ 4 Speaking Michael F. Murphy Anesthesiology Calvin A. Brown, III Emergency Medicine Ron M. Walls Emergency Medicine Robert C. Luten Emergency Medicine