St Anthony Hospital Airway Lab

Lakewood, CO US
October 27, 2017

This is an airway lab focused on increasing physician comfort with emergency airway management techniques. The session will start with a 15-20-minute talk focusing on best practices for emergency department intubations.

Techniques discussed will be implemented via several skills stations including: supraglottic airways, video laryngoscopy, flexible endoscopy and surgical airways.

 

Learning Objectives

  1. Discuss utility and implementation of airway checklists for increasing team cohesiveness and improving patient outcomes
  2. Demonstrate comfort with supraglottic airways and their use as a tool in can’t oxygenate/can’t ventilate scenarios as well as use in securing a definitive airway (intubating through a supraglottic airway)
  3. Apply troubleshooting techniques in addressing difficulties with tube delivery in radically curved video laryngoscopes
  4. Apply “scalpel, finger, bougie” technique to perform surgical airway
  5. Optimize topical anesthesia application prior to awake flexible endoscopic intubation (FEI) and train in best practices for FEI
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
  • 1.50 Certificate of Participation
Course opens: 
10/27/2017
Course expires: 
10/27/2020
Event starts: 
10/27/2017 - 11:30am EDT
Event ends: 
10/27/2017 - 1:00pm EDT
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0
St. Anthony Hospital
11600 W 2nd Pl
Lakewood, CO 80228
United States

 

 

 

 

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It is the policy of the Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) to insure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored educational activities, and that all contributors present information in an objective, unbiased manner without endorsement or criticism of specific products or services and that the relationships that contributors disclose will not influence their contributions. In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias. All individuals in a position to control the content of this CME activity have indicated that he/she has no relevant financial relationships, which, in the context of this CME activity, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest. Complete disclosure of relevant (or no) financial relationships will be made to learners prior to the beginning of the CME activity. All faculty pictured may not be at all scheduled course dates.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
  • 1.50 Certificate of Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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