JMC Office of CME
Practical Emergency Airway Management

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Course Director:	Richard M. Levitan, MD, FACP, FAAEM Professor, Emergency Medicine Thomas Jefferson University
Location:	Hampton Inn Convention Center 550 Washington Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21230 (410) 685-5000

This course provides an in-depth look at effective airway management techniques that you will actually use in your next emergency airway. There is a unique focus on airway anatomy and imaging combined with one-of-a-kind opportunity to practice the techniques on a large variety of non-embalmed, specially prepared cadavers. This course teaches practical, effective skills and strategies for adult and pediatric intubation that promote patient safety and increase provider confidence.

Topics covered include orotracheal intubation, laryngoscopy, surgical airways (cricothyrotomy, tracheotomy), video laryngoscopy, fiberoptic intubation, nasotracheal intubation, pediatric intubation, and rescue ventilation devices such as the laryngeal mask airway. The intubation and ventilation techniques and devices are presented within an overall practical algorithm for the difficult airway that is applicable for emergency settings. There is significant focus on patient safety and a best practice approach to rapid sequence intubation.

Countless courses on the difficult airway, intubation, and rapid sequence intubation use plastic mannequins for hands-on practice. This course combines an enormous amount of airway imaging with 18 cadavers that have been specially prepared to have normal tissue turgor (not embalmed). The net effect is a truly unique visual and hands-on, real tissue experience available no where else in the world.

This course provides hands-on device practice on specially prepared cadavers using the following tools:

Curved blade laryngoscope Straight blade laryngoscope Malleable stylets Bougie (a.k.a. tube introducer) Specialized oral airways and tracheal tubes Fiberoptic stylets

LMA Unique Fastrach Intubating LMA I-Gel Laryngeal Mask Cook Intubating Laryngeal Airway Esophageal Tracheal Combitube King Laryngeal Tube

GlideScope Video Laryngoscope Storz C-Mac Video Laryngoscope Pentax Airway Scope McGrath Video Laryngoscope AirTraq Optical Laryngoscope Open Cricothyrotomy

The course is tailored to emergency physicians, but clinical care physicians, hospitalists, anesthesiologists, and respiratory therapy and paramedical personnel responsible for emergency airways will also benefit from this specialized practical approach.

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2012 Course Dates (additional dates to be added)

• February 2-3, 2012 - SOLD OUT - Post-Conference Survey and Evaluation
• March 1-2, 2012 - SOLD OUT
• April 12-13, 2012 - SOLD OUT
• May 3-4, 2012
• June 7-8, 2012

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 13.50 hour(s) of ACEP Category 1 Credit

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Department of Emergency Medicine, Jefferson Medical College In our dual role as an academic department at Jefferson Medical College and as a clinical department at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital we support the following missions: Patient Care: We pledge to provide the finest state of the art facilities and personal service to insure quality emergency care for each of our patients and their families. For more information, see our Clinical Home Page. Education: In the training of current and future physicians, we strive for excellence in teaching the practice of emergency medicine to residents and students. Our goal is to develop skilled and compassionate physicians through our residency training program. Our three-year residency program is affiliated with Jefferson Medical College and is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine. Information on our residency training program can be found on the Residency. Research: We aim to improve emergency medical care by advancing knowledge through research in the laboratory and in the clinical environment.