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Prehospital Emergency Airway Course

The Prehospital Emergency Airway Course is a comprehensive 3 year program designed around EMS recertification cycles. The course meets the requirements for Washington State airway training as approved by your county MPD.

The first year of this course is the full day initial course

Years two and three cover pediatric and special patient populations

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Initial PEAC

This one-day evidence-based course is designed for all advanced level prehospital providers who manage airways in critically ill patients.

  • This 8-hour course combines lecture with advanced skills and high-fidelity simulation.

  • Topics include:

    • How training and experience impact patient care

    • The basics of the anatomically difficult airway

    • Prehospital airway algorithms

    • Alternative and back up techniques for airway management

    • Video laryngoscope

    • Surgical airways

    • Bougie techniques

    • Use of checklists and how to increase first pass success rates

    • The importance of oxygenation

    • Airway management in the critically ill patient

    • Pharmacology update

    • Skills stations and interactive scenarios to reinforce learning

    Included with this course is 3D a cricothyrotomy model.

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Pediatric Airway

The pediatric PEAC builds on the initial PEAC course.

  • This 4-hour course covers comprehensive pediatric airway management.

  • Students will learn the following for pediatric airways:

    • Physiologic and anatomic differences

    • The difficult pediatric airway

    • Pediatric SGA

    • Pediatric video laryngoscopy

    • Needle cricothyrotomy

    • Foreign body airway obstruction

    • Pharmacology update

    • Scenario based learning

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Special Populations

The special populations PEAC builds on the initial PEAC course.

  • This 4-hour course covers airway management in special populations including: trauma, obese, pregnancy, reactive airway and more.

  • Students will learn techniques for the following patient populations:

    • Trauma

    • Elevated ICP and neurologic emergencies

    • Reactive airway

    • Status seizure

    • The pregnant patient

    • The morbidly obese

    • Massively soiled airways

Prehospital Emergency Airway Course

Train the Trainer

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Train the Trainer

Note: Instructor courses are only valid if given by Cartwright Education. Outside agencies may not give instructor certifications.

This course includes a 4-hour online pre-course in addition to an 16-hour in-person course.

  • Trainers will be supplied with all the material needed to teach the all 3 courses including outlines, schedules, lectures (with teaching points), detailed skills stations, and simulation scenarios.

  • This class is designed for experienced providers with a passion for airway education.

  • MDP approval and WA state EMS Evaluator certification to attend.

  • Endorsed by the WA State Fire Chiefs and the WA State MPDs as a continued airway education course.

This course is endorsed by the WA State Fire Chiefs Association and WA state MPDs.