The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency (May 30 - Jun 01, 2025)
In-Person Event
May 30 - Jun 01, 2025
Orlando, Florida, USA
21.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ OVERVIEW
The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency is organized by Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) and will be held from May 30 - Jun 01, 2025 at Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld®, Orlando, Florida, United States of America.
Description:
The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency is the only national CME program that teaches the widely-adopted, evidence-based approach to emergency airway management developed by Drs. Ron Walls, Michael Murphy and Robert Luten.
In this practice-changing course you will:
- Increase mastery of high-risk airway scenarios with new sessions on the anatomically and physiologically difficult airway
- earn simple, effective airway algorithms for a reproducible approach to any emergency airway.
- Understand the challenges associated with managing pediatric airways.
- Participate in hands-on sessions exclusively focusing on difficult and failed airways, emphasizing rescue strategies and devices.
Led by Calvin Brown, III, MD, the course emphasizes small group learning, hands-on sessions and medical simulations to reinforce learning and provide valuable practice time with proven airway devices. Join us for this intensive training and leave assured you are at the leading edge of airway management.
Purpose & Objectives:
Airway Management is one of the most critical skills in Emergency Medicine. This course is designed to provide participants with
state-of-the-art information and hands-on experience that ensure effective and appropriate management of airway emergencies.
Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
- Have a clear conceptual framework for Difficult Airway Management in the emergency setting.
- Be able to identify the Difficult, Unanticipated/Emergency Difficult and Failed airway.
- Have a rapid and systematic approach for the management of each of these clinical dilemmas.
- Be familiar with the devices and techniques needed to manage these clinical dilemmas, and when and how to use them.
Highlights include:
- Instruction by a world-class faculty.
- Code Airway™ stations: Challenging medical simulations to reinforce decision-making and skills.
- Focused sessions on Pediatric Airways, Trauma, Medical Emergencies, Difficult and Failed Airways.
- Detailed instruction in a variety of challenging patient scenarios:
- elevated ICP
- pulmonary edema
- cardiogenic shock
- status asthmaticus
- foreign body in the airway
- direct airway trauma
- multiple trauma with shock
- and many more.
- Dynamic and interactive learning environment.
Hands-on Training in Crucial Airway Techniques:
- Percutaneous and surgical cricothyrotomy
- Video laryngoscopy
- Fiberoptic stylets and guides
- Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
- Extraglottic devices
- Awake intubation
- Flexible endoscopic intubation
- Pediatric airway skills
- Techniques for the obese patient.
KEY DATES
ACCREDITATION & CREDITS
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of SCP Health and Airway Management Education Center (AMEC). SCP Health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit
2025 Accreditation Information
SCP Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 21.25 AMA PRA Category 1™ Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ACEP Credit
2025 Accreditation Information
Programs are approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for ACEP Category 1 Credit.
AAFP Credit
2025 Accreditation Information
The AAFP has reviewed The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency and deemed it acceptable for AAFP Elective Credit. Term of approval is from 05/02/2025 to 11/16/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AOA Credit Statement
The American Osteopathic Association accepts for AOA Category 2 credit activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1™ Credit from organizations accredited by ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education) and programs approved by AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians) for Prescribed or Elective credit.
Physician Associates / Physician Assistants Credits
National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) accepts for Category 1 CME credit activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit from organizations accredited by ACCME.
American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME or a recognized state medical society.
TARGET AUDIENCE
PhysicianNursingDentistPharmacistPhysician AssistantRespiratory TherapistEmergency Medicine PhysiciansResidentsNursesEmergency MedicineHealthcare ProvidersFellowsParamedicsSPECIALITIES
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CONFERENCE VENUE
Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld®CANCELLATION & REFUND POLICY
A Cancellation Fee of 10% of the tuition paid will apply to all course cancellations requested upto 14 days prior to start of Course.
No refunds will be issued for cancellations requested within 14 days of the course start date.
No refunds will be granted to those who do not attend the Course without having made prior arrangements for cancellation or transfer.
If a registrant tests positive for COVID or another communicable disease, they may cancel theirregistration up to the start of the course. A 10% cancellation fee will be assessed. Proof of positive test will be required to initiate refund if requested within 14 days of course start date.
Alternatively, registrants may transfer to another course with no transfer or cancellation fee.
A credit for a future course will be offered to any attendee who leaves during the Course because of COVID-19 symptoms or positive test.
If Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) is required to cancel a course due to safety concerns, all attendees will receive a 100% refund or may transfer to another course.
