Programme Objectives

Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Programme

After participating in this AirwaySkills “Hands-on Tutorial in Airway Management Techniques”, you will be able to:

• Identify the features of a difficult airway
• Apply planned strategies when managing the difficult airway
• Prepare and conduct an awake intubation
• Develop an extubation plan
• Optimise ventilation and intubation attempts
• Choose and utilize alternative ventilation and intubation techniques
• Use the fibreoptic bronchoscope for intubation with a range of techniques
• Conduct emergency airway procedures including transtracheal jet ventilation, cricothyroidotomy, and surgical cricothyroidotomy
• Understand safe airway management principles and apply them to a range of clinical case scenarios

Emergency Medicine Programme

On completion of the Emergency Airway Course the participant will be able to:

• Identify the features of a difficult airway
• Prepare a plan to manage a difficult airway
• Optimise ventilation and intubation attempts
• Use direct laryngoscopy applying first pass success principles
• Apply a rapid sequence induction in a difficult airway
• Manage a cannot intubate, cannot ventilate situation
• Conduct emergency airway procedures including transtracheal jet ventilation, cannula cricothyroidotomy and surgical cricothyroidotomy
• Choose and utilize alternative ventilation and intubation techniques
• Understand safe airway management principles and apply them to a range of clinical case scenarios