The Definitive EMS Airway Course
- Experience the only EMS airway course that is designed by the authors of the definitive airway textbook, Manual of Emergency Airway Management, 4th edition – Drs. Ron Walls, Michael Murphy and Robert Luten. Participants receive a copy of the Manual (an $84.00 value!).
- Learn the full range of airway management techniques – including use of extraglottic devices, drug-assisted intubation and cricothyrotomy.
- Work with expert faculty who know the unique challenges facing EMS providers. All of our faculty members perform airway management regularly in their clinical practices.
- Use all of the airway devices in small group sessions.
- Practice decision making and airway techniques in Code Airway Stations.
- Face the most challenging patient scenarios in a no-risk environment. These include: elevated ICP, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock, status asthmaticus, foreign body in the airway, direct airway trauma, multiple trauma with shock, and many more.
- Meet your continuing education requirements. This course is approved by CECBEMS, ASTNA and AAPA.
- Didactic and Hands-on Training in Crucial Airway Techniques
- Prediction of the Difficult Airway
- Difficult airway evaluation using video laryngoscopes designed for EMS
- Drug-assisted Intubation (including RSI)
- Pediatric airway management
- Laryngeal mask airways for intubation
- Intubating stylets and advanced laryngoscopy techniques
- Surgical Cricothyrotomy: open and percutaneous techniques
- Extraglottic devices (supraglottic and infraglottic)
- Digital and nasal intubation
- End-tidal CO2 detection and capnography*
- CPAP and BiPAP*
- Ventilator Management*
* Denotes additional lectures that may be presented depending on local protocols and policies, time availability and request
