The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency - San Diego

Taught by a world-class faculty, The Difficult Airway Course: EmergencyTM is the only national CME program that teaches the evidence-based, algorithmic approach to emergency airway management developed by airway experts Ron M. Walls, Michael F. Murphy and Robert C. Luten. The course emphasizes assessment and decision-making to enable participants to manage any emergency airway they encounter. This 'practice-changing' program offers multiple hands-on sessions that reinforce the learning and provide valuable practice time with proven airway devices.

Setting the Standard

Thousands of physicians world-wide come to our course for intensive training in difficult airway management.  Highlights include:

• Instruction by a world-class faculty.
• Simple, effective airway algorithms that allow for an orderly, reproducible approach to any emergency airway.
• Small group, hands-on sessions exclusively focusing on difficult and failed airways, emphasizing rescue strategies and devices.
• Code AirwayTM stations: Challenging medical simulations to reinforce decision-making and skills.
• Focused sessions on Pediatric Airways, Trauma, Medical Emergencies, Difficult and Failed Airways.
• Detailed instruction in a variety of challenging patient scenarios:
  • elevated ICP
  • pulmonary edema
  • cardiogenic shock
  • status asthmaticus
  • foreign body in the airway
  • direct airway trauma
  • multiple trauma with shock
  • and many more.
• Dynamic and interactive learning environment.

Hands-on Training in Crucial Airway Techniques

• Percutaneous and surgical cricothyrotomy
• Video laryngoscopy
• Fiberoptic stylets and guides
• Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
• Extraglottic devices
• Awake intubation
• Flexible endoscopic intubation
• Pediatric airway skills
• Techniques for the obese patient
• and more!