The Difficult Airway Course: Anesthesia (Sep 06 - 08, 2024)
The Difficult Airway Course: Anesthesia is organized by the Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) and will be held from Sep 06 - 08, 2024 at Hyatt Regency Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Description:
was created by airway experts in Anesthesiology and is continuously updated to incorporate the latest advancements in the field. Taught by a faculty with an unparalleled passion for teaching, this advanced program features hands-on sessions and coaching throughout to enhance skills in these areas
PURPOSE & OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to provide participants with state-of-the-art information and hands-on experience with the most critical elements of airway management to ensure effective and appropriate management of the airway. Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
• Perform an airway assessment to predict difficulty
• Describe the key elements of the difficult airway.
• Describe the steps of awake intubation.
• Identify a failed airway, and describe and perform an effective response.
• Perform an emergency surgical airway.
• Demonstrate safe extubation and tube exchange techniques, including the use of airway exchange catheters.
• Be aware of effective communication techniques, team leadership and other human factors to optimize airway management.
• Identify airway management techniques for treating highly infectious viral patients.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Thousands of physicians worldwide come to our course for intensive training in the most critical elements of difficult airway management. Highlights include:
• Instruction by a world-class faculty of airway experts with an unparalleled passion for teaching.
• Content, techniques and “pearls” that benefit even the most experienced providers.
• Hands-on sessions featuring challenging Code Airway™ stations.
• Focus on difficult airway management, difficult extubation, failed airway management and crisis team leadership.
• Dynamic and interactive learning environment.
• Up-to-date evidence
HANDS-ON TRAINING IN CRUCIAL AIRWAY TECHNIQUES
• Awake Intubation — When & How
• Topical Anesthesia
• Open Cricothyrotomy
• Extubation and Tube Exchange
• Crisis Team Leadership
• Video Laryngoscopy
• Flexible Endoscopic Intubation
• Lighted and Fiberoptic Intubating Stylets and Guides
• Techniques for the Obese Patient
• Simulation Case Reinforcing Cognitive Information
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.