Advanced Airway Management Workshop - Initial

Introduction

The Advanced Airway Management Workshop is a 16 hour session, designed to provide participants with state of the art information and hands-on experience that ensures effective and appropriate management of airway emergencies. The workshop includes the use of medical simulators to provide simulated experiences to test and reinforce decision making and skills.

Detailed instruction and cases will include direct airway trauma, multiple trauma, foreign body in the airway, status asthmaticus, increased ICP, pulmonary edema, and failed airways; additionally, participants will orient to the fundamentals and interpretation of Capnography. Participants will have the opportunity to work with specialized bag-valve devices that restrict rate/volume/pressure, uncuffed supraglottic airways, video laryngoscopy, rapid sequence intubation with paralytics, endotracheal tube inducers, aids for direct laryngoscope techniques, and basic mechanical ventilator strategy. During the workshop, participants manage their own cases using ALS Manikins and Difficult Airway simulators both alone and in small groups.

Intended Audience

The Advanced Airway Management Workshop is intended for healthcare providers who perform advance airway interventions, including Resident Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Advanced Paramedics, Paramedics, Flight Nurses, Respiratory Therapists.

Course Length: 16 hours (Initial Workshop)
Course Size: 6 student minimum required for class
Materials Provided to Students: Current Concepts in Advanced Airway Management, Christie, 2026.
Certification Type:

Course Completion Certificate

14 hours CAPCE Accredited CME
Pre-Course Review Media:
Instructional Format: Integrative lecture, practical skills lab, and case studies.
Participation Expectations:

In order to receive continuing education units (CEUs), a registered participant must be present for all scheduled hours and be engaged in the interactive discussions, case reviews and knowledge evaluation.

Participants will successfully:

  1. Complete a simulated ventilation with a BVM device that is designed to restrict rate, volume, and pressure of ventilation.

  2. Complete a simulation utilizing a Supraglottic Airway with no inflatable cuff in a cardiac arrest.

  3. Complete a simulation utilizing a video laryngoscope to intubate a patient with a difficult airway.

  4. Complete the GEMR Endotracheal Intubation in Cardiac Arrest Skill Documentation Form.

  5. Complete a simulation of a difficult airway patient being intubated with a systematic approach and medication assist.

  6. Complete a simulation utilizing the Suction-Assisted Laryngoscopy and Airway Decontamination (SALAD) technique.

  7. Complete a Case Scenario Simulation as a team member.

  8. Participate in a Case Study.
Course completion: Having met the Participation Expectations listed above, a participant will receive a Course Completion indicating the respective workshop hours completed. It is recommended that the participant also retain this Syllabus as further documentation to professional certification/licensure agencies or employers of content, objectives, outcomes, and assessments.
Objectives:

Educational content covered in this workshop includes a review of current science and best practices on:

  1. Provision of ventilatory support for a patient with positive pressure ventilation.

  2. Provision of advanced airway techniques to assure a patent airway, including use of IGel Airway, LMA, Endotracheal Tube Airway.

  3. Provision of patient monitoring and physiological assessment through the use of waveform capnography.

  4. Review the optimal airway management for the crashing patient in the emergency medicine environment.

  5. Prevent the complications seen with intubation of the critically ill.

  6. Understand appropriate initial ventilator settings to avoid patient deterioration.

  7. Develop a strategy for airway management which does not impact the patient’s physiologic state.

  8. Develop a mechanical ventilator strategy for a patient presented.
Outcomes:

Participants who successfully complete this workshop will be able to:

  1. Recognize a patient with a difficult airway.

  2. Assess the probable cause of the condition using critical thinking.

  3. Develop an approach to the patient's condition.

  4. Demonstrate proper use of a bag valve mask for ventilation at the right rate and volume for the patient.

  5. Demonstrate the use of advanced airway techniques to assure a patent airway, including use of an uncuffed Supraglottic Airway and Endotracheal Tube Airway.

  6. Provide evidence based airway management for the crashing patient in the emergency medicine environment.
Assessments: GEMR Skills Documentation Form completion.

Initial Workshop – 16 hour Outline:

Workshop Day 1

(7 hours of program time):

0900-0930 Course Introduction and Initial Questions.
0930-1200 Current Concepts in Advanced Airway Management (Faculty - Lecture/Discussion).
1200-1300 Lunch Provided by Course Sponsor(s).
1300-1630

Skills Stations and Skills Competency Opportunities (Students broken into four, person groups; each group rotates through the following skills stations for 45 minutes with a seven minute break between stations):

  1. Bag Valve Mask Ventilation with engineered rate, volume, pressure of ventilation restriction and Bag Valve Advanced Airway ventilation during cardiac arrest and SALAD incidents.

  2. Use of uncuffed Supraglottic Airway in cardiac arrest management.

  3. Video Laryngoscopy for endotracheal intubation in the difficult airway patient.

  4. SALAD technique in the crashing patient.
1630-1700 Round Table Q&A Session (Faculty Panel answers submitted questions from participants)

Workshop Day 2

(7 hours of program time):

0900-0930 Questions from Day 1 (Faculty Panel)
0930-1100 Advanced Airway Management Case Studies (Faculty Panel with interactive solutions from participants).
1100-1200 Ventilator Basics (Faculty - Interactive Lecture)
1200-1300 Lunch on your own
1300-1600

Current Topics in Advanced Airway Management Cases (Students broken into four, six person groups; each group rotates through the following interactive case simulations 40 minutes with a 5 minute break between stations):

  1. SALAD Patient Case.

  2. Cardiac Arrest Patient Case.

  3. Decompensating Respiratory Disease Patient Case.

  4. Trauma Airway Patient Case.
1600-1645 Round Table Q&A Session (Faculty Panel answers submitted questions from participants)
1645-1700 Participants complete course evaluation, receive direction on obtaining their course completion certificate, and receive direction on collection of their Accredited CME hours.

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