Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
UCL (University College London) and University College London Hospitals
This online course explored key concepts underlying safe, multidisciplinary airway management, considering how clinicians can improve safety, prevent complications, and be prepared to manage difficulties when they arise.
5 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Emilie Hoogenboom
Consultant Anaesthetist UCLH, Hon Clinical Senior Teaching Fellow UCL
UCL (University College London)
Dr Abigail Whiteman
Consultant Anaesthetist UCLH, Hon Senior Lecturer UCL
University College London Hospitals
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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.
Syllabus
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.
Week 1: Safe Airway Management, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Airway Anatomy
- Airway Safety: The Big Picture
- NAP4, Key Findings and Recommendations
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Anatomy: a Journey Through the Airways
Week 2: Airway Assessment and Planning, Cognitive Tools, Dealing with Emergencies
- Assess the Airway and Develop a Strategy
- Airway Equipment
- Cognitive Tools
- Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate
Week 3: Safety and Special Techniques
- Rapid Sequence Induction
- Extubation
- The Obstructed Airway
- Special Techniques: Awake Tracheal Intubation, High-Flow Nasal Oxygenation, Jet Ventilation, LASER
Week 4: The Shared Airways
- The Patient Journey
- Tracheostomies and Laryngectomies
- The Critically Ill Patient
- Prehospital Airway Management
Week 5: Airway Management in Special Circumstances
- Paediatrics
- Obstetrics
- Obesity
- A Global Perspective
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Issued on 24th October 2020
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