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Schedule of Interactive Events

October 14, 2011                       1:00 PM EDT                    Airway World Auditorium

Airway Challenges in Air Medical Transport (webinar)

Are you an active or aspiring flight nurse, flight medic, flight RT or flight physician?  You know this is an exciting but challenging profession where you will manage some of the most difficult airways in small spaces and hectic places with very little back-up.  Heck, you ARE the back up.  Tune in to this interactive webinar led by Darren Braude, MD, EMT-P to get the latest updates in airway management for air medical transport professionals.  Dr. Braude will use a variety of case studies to stimulate discussion on topics such as 1) the entrapped patient, 2) airways before transport vs in-flight, 3) video laryngoscopy, 4) awake intubation, 5) optimal preoxygenation strategies, 6) predicting the difficult airway and much more! 

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November 3, 2011                     3:00 PM EDT                    Airway World Auditorium

 

Top Pediatric Airway Articles:  A Year in Review (webinar)

 

Join Josh Nagler, MD, Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program, Children's Hospital Boston, for a look at the most influential and interesting pediatric journal articles from 2010-2011.  Articles from the pediatric, anesthesia and emergency medicine literature will be reviewed as part of a broader discussion focusing on the challenges of pediatric airway managment. 

 

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November 30, 2011                  7:00 PM EST                    Airway World Auditorium

 

Low Cost Lifesavers:  Airway Management on a Budget (webinar)

 

Purchasing airway management equipment may be a challenge for budget-strapped hospitals and EMS agencies. In this webinar, Steven Carleton, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, highlights important airway devices that cost less than $2,000. All devices included in this webinar are taught in The Difficult Airway Courses™ (or covered in the Manual of Emergency Airway Management) so you can be sure that they are backed by clinical evidence and expert experience.  Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your airway management capabilities without breaking the bank! 

 

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December 14, 2011                     2:00 PM EST                  Airway World Auditorium

 

Quarterly Research Review with Ron M. Walls, MD (webinar)

   

It's easy to stay current in the field of airway management with these quarterly research reviews! Dr. Walls selects the most relevant research from recently published articles, shares their results and discusses their impact on the practice of emergency airway management. 
  

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HOW TO PARTICIPATE:  A link to each webinar will be listed in the Airway World Auditorium.  Click on the link when it becomes live 30 minutes before the start of the program.  You will be taken to the webinar where you will enter your name and email address to join the session.  Limit 100 per session.

"How does one define competency in airway management?"  That is the question that sparked a lively discussion among a small group of anesthesiologists at a Society for Airway Management (SAM) meeting in 2009.  Among this group was Dr. Tracey Straker, Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY.  "This informal group and our discussion took on a life of its own.  It turned into a research project and a publication about this very important question," says Dr. Straker. 

In the publication, A survey of airway training among U.S. and Canadian Anesthesiology residency programs, the researchers revealed great disparities in how residency programs define competency in airway techniques.  They concluded that more empirical data on competent performance was needed to make recommendations for how many procedures were necessary for developing competency. 

Viewing this as a call to action, Dr. Straker set out to create a mechanism to track the airway management activity of anesthesiology residents.  With the support of Montefiore Medical Center and a grant from SAM, the electronic Airway Education Log was born.

The Airway Log is an on-line database for self-reporting of airway management cases at the point of care.  Residents enter relevant information about their experience managing each airway including the modality for intubating, the number of attempts, complications and the name of the faculty member who guided them.  They can also add comments about interesting or unusual circumstances surrounding each case.   Each resident has access to his/her own data set and Residency Directors can view the group's results. 

Dr. Straker is pleased with the results she has seen at her institution with the residents in her difficult airway rotation.  "I can now easily track how many intubations my residents do, what adjuncts they use and what issues they face.  I can get involved if I notice that a resident is falling behind and make more opportunities available to him or her."

Residents can use the system to guide their own learning, too.  "With their airway history laid out before them, they can see where more practice is needed and begin to formulate what works best for them when managing a difficult airway," Dr. Straker adds.

Nine institutions from three countries currently use the Airway Log.  "The greatest benefits will come when many institutions from around the world are enrolled," Dr. Straker emphasizes.  "Then we will have an invaluable data set that can help us define how best to develop competency in airway management."    

To learn more about the Airway Log or to enroll your residents, please contact Tracey Straker, MD at tstraker@montifiore.org.  The enrollment process is easy and participation is free.  

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