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