#HC-04-26 Airway Matters
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
UCL (University College London)Description
Develop safe airway management strategies for your patients
The safe management of a patient’s airway is one of the most challenging and complex tasks undertaken by a health professional – complications can result in devastating outcomes.
How can we improve safety, prevent complications, and be prepared to manage difficulties when they arise?
How, in a crisis, can we ensure that human and technical resources are best utilised?
Our course will provide answers to these key questions and help you develop strategies to improve patient safety in your area of practice, discussing safe airway management in patient groups and multidisciplinary clinical settings.
What topics will you cover?
This course has been carefully designed to provide an up-to-date and practical educational experience, with learners accessing comprehensive course materials developed in collaboration with leading experts, frontline clinicians, and patients.
Who will you learn with?
Emilie is a consultant in anaesthesia at UCLH, and an honorary senior clinical teaching fellow at UCL, with a special interest in airway management, teaching and education.
Abigail is a consultant in anaesthesia at University College Hospital, London and an honorary associate professor at UCL. Her main specialist interests are perioperative medicine and medical education
Laura is an anaesthetic registrar in London, with special interests in airway management and paediatric anaesthesia.
Who developed the course?
UCL was founded in 1826. It was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, and the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it.
What Will I Learn?
- Improve your strategies to deal with the unexpected difficult airway and explore guidelines to use in special circumstances.
- Identify the key learning points and recommendations from the 4th National Audit Project (NAP4) on major complications of airway management in the UK.
- Apply the principles of multidisciplinary planning, communication and teamwork in shared airways interventions.
- Describe the technical and non-technical aspects of safe airway management for patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery, and the critically ill.
- Engage in a global discussion on airway matters with health professionals from around the world.
Topics for this course
Airway Safety
The Big Question00:11:34
Let’s learn about DAS00:05:25
Your Turn: What makes airway management safe?
The 4th National Audit Project00:09:17
No Trace, Wrong Place00:07:41
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Airway Management
Airway Management in the Patient with COVID-19
Airway Anatomy
Yes, It was good for me. I learned a lot in this course. Good.
Emilie Martinoni Hoogenboom lecturers very well and the course is very concise and easy to understand.
This course provides answers to a number of key questions and helps you develop strategies to improve patient safety in my field of practice, discussing safe airway management in patient populations and multidisciplinary clinical Settings. Very good course.
The safe management of patient airways is one of the most challenging and complex tasks undertaken by health professionals. How can you improve safety, prevent complications, and be prepared for difficulties? This course is analyzed in detail.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course, endorsed by the Difficult Airway Society, is for all members of the multidisciplinary team who provide airway support to patients, or care for patients with a compromised airway. This includes anaesthetists, anaesthesia associates, operating department practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, adult and paediatric intensivists, prehospital and emergency medicine physicians, paramedics, head and neck surgeons and members of the cardiac arrest team.
- The course is in English and the learning outcomes are relevant to UK based and international colleagues.
- Health professionals might find the Certificate of Achievement for this course useful for providing evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) or commitment to their career.