The Airway Manager: Emergency™ program is intended for healthcare providers who manage airways in the emergency department setting; including Emergency Physicians and other physicians who work in the Emergency Department, Physician Assistants, Paramedics, Flight Nurses and Respiratory Therapists.

The Airway Manager: Emergency™ program is an adaptive self-assessment tool designed to adjust to the learner’s strengths and areas for growth.  It can be accessed from a desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Learners select a module and are presented with a sequence of questions. After each question is answered, the user is provided with the key learning point, detailed feedback that discusses the correct answer, as well as each of the wrong answers, and citations to relevant articles.

• List the indications for airway management
• Recognize airway difficulty
• Apply the airway algorithms to manage patient scenarios
• Identify how to maximize patient safety during airway management
• Understand airway pharmacology
• Identify indications and performance characteristics for common airway devices
• Construct safe rescue plans when faced with a failed airway
• Understand factors that impact a patient’s oxygenation status and adequacy of ventilation
• Understand factors that increase a patient’s work of breathing
• Identify relevant airway anatomy
• Know the innervation of the upper airway
• Know how to perform best-technique preoxygenation for emergency airway management
• Understand how shunt physiology and dead space can affect preoxygenation and ventilation
• Understand the role of flush rate oxygen and apneic oxygenation in patient safety during emergency airway management.

All questions are approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and MOC points.  You must answer questions correctly to receive CME credit and MOC points.

Six questions answered correctly are designated for 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

Six questions answered correctly equal 1 MOC point.

One hour for every 6 questions answered correctly.

Each module includes citations and references.

The Massachusetts Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 54.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Massachusetts Medical Society designates each enduring material for the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed below. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Decision to Intubate: 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Identification of the Difficult and Failed Airway: 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

The Universal, Main, and Crash Airway Algorithms: 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

The Difficult and Failed Airway Algorithms: 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Pulmonary Physiology and Airway Anatomy: 12.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Emergency Preoxygenation: 8.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 54.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

The following completion information will be transmitted to the ACCME and the ABIM on behalf of the participant by Airway Management Education Center: ABIM ID (six-digit number), First Name, Last Name, Partial Date of Birth (mm/dd), Activity Completion Date, MOC Points and MOC Credit Type(s).  If you wish this information to be transmitted to the ACCME and ABIM, please enter your ABIM ID and Partial Date of Birth where indicated.

PAs may claim a maximum of 54.25 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. NCCPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.

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None of the other individuals in a position to control the content of the activity have any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to report.

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• Mac OS X v10.9+
• Minimum 1 GB of RAM but 2 GB or greater is recommended
• Intel Core™ Duo 1.33GHz or faster processor
• Display resolution: 1024 × 768 or better

Mobile/Tablet

• Airway Manager™ is compatible with iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. Add our shortcut to your homescreen via your mobile device browser for quick access.
• Android phones may access Airway Manager™ through our mobile-optimized browser version.
• iOS devices running OS 9+(includes iPhone and iPad devices).
• Android version 5+ (includes smartphones and tablets). Android version 6+ is recommended.

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Participant data is governed by the ABIM Confidentiality Policy and submitted to the ABIM using the ACCME PARS system. Identifiable data shall not be provided to ACCME or ABIM by any organization or participant.

Public Information About Providers of MOC Activities

The following information, provided to ACCME by the provider, is considered public information, and may be released by ABIM and/or ACCME.

• Activity Title
• Activity Type
• Accredited Provider Name
• Accredited Provider contact information (including website address and phone number)
• Joint provider name (if applicable)
• Activity date (start date, in the case of multi-day live activities or enduring material activity)
• Specialty/Specialties activity addresses
• Maximum allowable MOC points and patient safety credit awarded.

The following information may be made available in physicians’ MOC history reports located in the secure physician login area of ABIM’s website:

• Activity title
• MOC point value, including patient safety credit, if applicable
• Activity completion date

Subscriptions may be cancelled within 30 days of purchase. Refunds will be based on CME credits earned.

You will continue to have access to your transcript under My Credits Earned on Airway Manager.

Please contact support@staging.theairwaysite.com to initiate your cancellation request.