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Difficult Airway Management

Sep 5, 2019 - Sep 7, 2019

Attend this state-of-the-art, systematic overview and hands-on experience offering the preparation, teamwork, and tools necessary to manage complex critical care airway situations.

  • Identify exam findings associated with a difficult airway, practice the essential skills of intubation, and learn to use innovative new advanced airway tools to manage difficult airways.
  • Gain hands-on experience with a multitude of videolaryngoscopes, bougies, and other intubating devices proven to increase first-pass intubation success.
  • Utilize extraglottic airways to reestablish ventilation should intubation is not successful.
  • Recognize when and how to use cricothyrotomy for failed airways.
  • Work with a team using crew resource management concepts to solve airway problems in a high-fidelity, fast-paced, simulated clinical environment using scenarios developed from real-life cases.

Organizer

American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)

Venue

CHEST Headquarters
Glenview, IL United States + Google Map