Airway Matters

Safe airway management strategies should be developed for your patients

Safely managing a patient's airway can be a difficult and complex task for both pre-hospital and hospital staff. Complications can lead to devastating results.

This six-week course will teach you how to improve safety, prevent problems, and manage airway management issues. You'll also learn techniques that can be used in a variety of pre- and hospital settings.

Safety and airway assessment

This course will begin by explaining the concept of safe airway management. Next, you will learn how to evaluate an airway and which equipment is best for emergency and elective airway management.

Guidelines and cognitive aids can be helpful in stressful situations. Here are some key examples.

We'll also be discussing the importance of patients being involved in decision-making, and how to create safe strategies for more complicated cases.

Learn about airway management in particular scenarios

Airway management is different for children and adults. However, factors like pregnancy, obesity, or having to use a tracheostomy require that we adapt our methods.

This course will show you how different approaches to airway management are applied around the world, in high- and low-resource settings.

Learn about the challenges and standards involved in pre-hospital airway management

Pre-hospital airway management presents its challenges. The Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex will guide you through safety and governance as well as demonstrations of prehospital airway management techniques.

You'll be able to discuss topics such as pre-hospital anaesthesia, Rapid Sequence Induction, pre-oxygenation techniques, and intra-arrest management.