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The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care™
Minneapolis, MN / September 23, 2022 - September 25, 2022
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2020 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 - 8:30 AM
Essential Skills in Airway Management
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Airway Anatomy
9:00 - 9:15 AM
Fiberoptic Tour of the Airway
9:15 - 9:30 AM
Break
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Difficult Airway Assessment / Difficult Anatomy
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Dangerous Physiology in Emergency Airway Management
10:30 - 11:15 AM
RSI Pharmacology
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Workshops I:
Hands-on: Essential Techniques in Airway Management
Hands-on: Topical Anesthesia, Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy, Video Laryngoscopy
12:15 - 1:15 PM
Panel Lunch
(box lunch provided)
1:15 - 2:15 PM
Workshop I:
Hands-on: Essential Techniques in Airway Management
Hands-on: Topical Anesthesia, Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy, Video Laryngoscopy
2:15 - 3:00 PM
Human Factors I
3:00 - 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 - 5:15 PM
Workshops II:
Hands-on: Tips and Tricks (More Essential Techniques)
Hands-on: Combining Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy and Video Laryngoscopy or EGD
Day 2
6:30 - 7:30 AM
Registration and Breakfast
7:30 - 9:30 AM
Workshops III:
Hands-on: Emergency Surgical Airway
Hands-on: Soiled/Trauma Airway
Workshop: Airway Ultrasound
Workshop: Special Populations (Pediatrics, OB, Neuro)
9:30 - 9:45 AM
Break
9:45 - 11:45 AM
Workshops IV:
Hands-on: Emergency Surgical Airway
Hands-on: Soiled/Trauma Airway
Workshop: Airway Ultrasound
Workshop: Special Populations (Pediatrics, OB, Neuro)
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch on Own
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Failed Airway
2:00 - 2:30 PM
Human Factors II
2:30 - 2:45 PM
Break
2:45 - 5:15 PM
Code Airway™ Simulations
Day 3
6:30 7:30 AM
Registration and Breakfast
7:30 - 8:00 AM
Extubation and Airway Exchange Catheters
8:00 - 8:30 AM
Organizational Considerations
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Workshops IV:
Post-Op Head and Neck, Tracheal Lesions and Stents
Hands-on: Extubation and Exchange Catheters
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Final Points and Pearls
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Wrap Up: Course Take-Home Messages, Interactive Exam
2021 information will be posted soon.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of SCP Health and Airway Management Education Center (AMEC). SSCP Health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA CME Credit
SCP Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 21.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.