Explore key concepts underlying safe, multidisciplinary airway management.
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.
Objectives
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to…
- 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. - Describe challenges to health professionals when managing airways of
patients with COVID-19.
Audience
- Critical Care Workforce Group
- Fundamentals of ITU
Link
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/airway-matters
Owner
University College London (UCL), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation
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