Airway Course Descriptions

Prehospital Emergency Airway Course

PEAC Initial Course

  • 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.

  • This course meets the paramedic airway management skills requirement for Pierce County EMS agency recertification.

  • 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

    Included with this course is The Airway Card, and a cricothyrotomy model.

 

Prehospital Emergency Airway Course

PEAC Special Populations

 

The special populations PEAC is meant to build on the initial PEAC course.

  • This 4-hour course is a combination of case-based learning, lecture, skills, and high-fidelity simulation.

  • This course meets the Pierce County paramedic airway management renewal requirements.

  • Students will learn techniques for the following patient populations:

    • Trauma

    • Reactive airway

    • Distorted anatomy

    • Status seizure

    • The pregnant patient

    • Geriatrics

    • The morbidly obese

    • Foreign body removal

    • Awake intubation skills

 

Prehospital Emergency Airway Course

PEAC Pediatrics

 

  • The pediatric PEAC is meant to build on the initial PEAC course.

  • This 4-hour course is a combination of case-based learning, lecture, skills, and high-fidelity simulation.

  • This course meets the Pierce County paramedic airway management renewal requirements.

  • 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

Prehospital Emergency Airway Course

Train the Trainer

  • This course includes a 4-hour online pre-course in addition to an 8-hour in-person course.

  • Trainers will be supplied with all the material needed to teach the course 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.

  • Included with this course is The Airway Card, and a cricothyrotomy model.

  • Trainers who attend this course will become airway subject matter experts and are encouraged to bring the PEAC course back to their home agency.

    • Trainers will be supplied with all the material needed to teach the course 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.

    • Included with this course is The Airway Card, and a cricothyrotomy model.

 

The Difficult Airway Course

The definitive EMS airway course

 

  • 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.

    • Airway Algorithms

    • BVM and SGA Masterclass

    • Laryngoscopy Tips and Tricks

    • Checklist

    • Airway assessment

    • Video laryngoscopy

    • Surgical airways

    • Bougie airway introducer

    • Awake techniques

    • Airway decontamination

    • Capnography

    • Basic Ventilator Management

    • Advanced Ventilator Management

    • Pediatric Emergency Airway Management

    • The Anatomic Difficult Airway

    • The Physiologic Difficult Airway

    • Airway Pharmacology

    • Special Patient Populations

  • 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

  • Digital copy of the 5th ed. Wall’s Manuel of Emergency Airway Management, The Airway Card, and a cricothyrotomy model.