Description
It is a one-day course for all healthcare providers who are interested in airway management. Our aim is to provide insight and hands-on experience on airway techniques and to develop student’s ability to predict and manage any emergency airway. This course focuses on the management of the basic, advanced, difficult, and Failed Airway. The course emphasizes assessment and decision-making to enable participants to manage any emergency airways they encounter. This ‘practice-changing program offers multiple hands-on sessions that reinforce the learning and provide valuable practice time with a proven airway device.
FEATURES
Upon successful completion of the course, the candidates should be able to:
Have a clear conceptual framework for Basic, Advanced, and difficult Airway management in the emergency setting.
• Describe methods to deliver supplemental oxygen for the circumstances at hand.
• Be familiar with the devices and techniques required to manage these clinical dilemmas, indications, contraindications, advantages, disadvantages of Oropharyngeal Airway (OPA) Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA) Bag-Valve Mask (BVM) Endotracheal tube Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) Cricothyrotomy (Needle & Surgical)
Rapidly assessing the patient’s need for intubation and the urgency of the situation
• Define rapid sequence intubation (RSI), decide which pharmacological agents to use, in respective order and doses.
• Recognize when the planned airway intervention fails and use alternative (rescue) techniques.
• Describe the predictors of as difficult MK ventilation and endotracheal intubation. Prepare & perform endotracheal intubation & Confirm placement of the Endotracheal tube
• Perform Cricothyrotomy (Needle & surgical)
