The definitive EMS airway course

Learn the full range of airway management techniques including use of extraglottic devices, medication-assisted intubation, video laryngoscopy & other advanced imaging devices, and cricothyrotomy.

Work with experienced faculty who know the unique challenges facing EMS providers.
Use all of the airway devices in small group sessions.
Practice decision making and airway techniques in Code AirwayTM stations.
Face the most challenging patient scenarios in a no-risk environment using fidelity simulation. These include elevated ICP, pulmonary edema, status asthmaticus, foreign body in the airway, direct airway trauma, multiple trauma with shock, and many more.
Meet your continuing education requirements. This two-day course is approved by CAPCE and ASTNA.
Receive the definitive airway textbook, The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management by Calvin A. Brown, MD John C. Sakles, MD and Nathan W. Mick, MD
Take home a cricothyrotomy model and Airway Card

Didactic and hands-on training in crucial airway topics:

The DAC is the definitive difficult airway course designed for EMS providers.

This course is delivered over two days and is a total of 16 hours in length.

High yield lectures are paired with skills stations, simulation and expert panels taught by experienced EMS faculty who are up to date on the national airway management standards of care.

At the completion of this course students will earn 16 CAPCE credits.

The DAC is a comprehensive airway course that covers the following topics:

Difficult and failed airway management
The anatomic difficult airway
The physiologic difficult airway
Video laryngoscopy
Medication-assisted intubation (including RSI, RSA, and DSI)
Pediatric airway management techniques
Endotracheal tube introducers (bougie)
Tips to increase first pass success
Surgical cricothyrotomy
Extraglottic devices
Capnography
Ventilator management CPAP and BiPAP
Awake techniques
Airway decontamination techniques with high fidelity simulation

The goals of this course are to build competence and confidence in all aspects of airway management through a standardized approach. We focus on managing the critically ill and complex patients as well as fine tuning the important basic airway skills