Course Prework
The Difficult Airway Course: Virtual 2021 is a new on-demand offering allowing you to “attend” our popular live virtual events held this past fall – on your schedule! Companion live webinars will offer participants the opportunity to ask questions and interact with The Difficult Airway Course faculty.
Learn More
FOUNDATIONS OF DIFFICULT & FAILED AIRWAY MANAGEMENT
  • Difficult Airway Assessment

  • Anatomically & Physiologically Difficult Airways

  • Pediatraics

  • Failed Airway

  • RSI & RSI Pharmacology

  • Awake Intubation
    • CRITICAL LESSONS & DISCUSSIONS

  • Pharmacology

  • Algorithms

  • Detection of the Anatomically Difficult Airway

  • Awake Intubation & Flexible Endoscopy

  • Extubation & ETT Tube Exchange

  • Crisis Resource Management/Human Factors
    • DEMONSTRATIONS & DISCUSSION
  • Bag Mask Ventilation (BMV)

  • Extraglottic Devices (EGD)

  • Laryngoscopy: Direct and Video

  • Tips & Tricks for Routine Techniques

  • Surgical Airway

    Topicalization & Awake Intubation

  • Airway Exchange Catheters (AEC)
    • INTEGRATIVE CASE DISCUSSIONS
  • Upper airway obstruction in a COVID-19+ patient

  • The bleeding, traumatized, vomit-filled airway

  • Can’t intubate/can’t oxygenate obese patient

  • Severe angioedema needing evaluation and possible management

  • And more!

    • Close

    Course Fees

    Course Tuition: $300

    Gold Tuition: $200

    for Physician Assistants, Advanced Practice Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Nurse Anesthetists and Anesthesiologist Assistants

    Bronze Tuition: $125

    for Residents and EMS Providers

    Visit the AMEC Airway Learning Portal to learn more and join this great program.