Emergency Medicine Difficult Airway Course

Curriculum Design

• Based on standard treatment protocols and principles of best practices
• Reviewed and validated by content experts
• Pre-programmed into dynamic and highly interactive scenarios

Learning Objectives

• Systemic approach to patient assessment and medical management
• Developing and improving doctor/patient and team communication skills
• Safe, effective patient care in stressful environments
• Effective critical reasoning in partially transparent reality
• Professionalism and Team Training

Method of Teaching

• Small Group Teaching
• Resident-focused simulator-based
• Teaching through inquiry
• Outcome-based training
• Controlled stress environment
• Reinforcement of procedural and cognitive skills

Procedural Skills Training

• Fiberoptic - Bronchoscopy
  • Flexible
  • Rigid
  • Video laryngoscopy
• Surgical Airway
  • Cricothyrotomy
  • Retrograde Intubation

Patient Simulation Cases (Adult and Pediatrics)

• Airway assessment and management (Mallampati and 3-3-2 Rule)
• Effective patient ventilation - manual (BVM) and mechanical
• Diagnosis and management of hemodynamically unstable patients
• Diagnosis and management of patients with multiple trauma (e.g., pneumothorax, internal bleeding, burn/blast, etc.)
• Diagnosis and management of patient with arrhythmias
• Diagnosis and management of patient with respiratory problems (e.g., asthma, ARDS, COPD etc)
• Diagnosis and management of patient with anaphylactic reactions
• Diagnosis and management of patient with thermal injury
• Diagnosis and management of patient with shock (e.g., septic, cardiogenic, etc.)
• Diagnosis and management of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS)