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EMS Educational Programs: Advanced Airway Course

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Cognitive Objectives:

At the conclusion of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center Prehospital Advanced Airway Course, the advanced life support provider should be able to:

  1. Recall the structures of the upper and lower airway.
  2. Describe the physiology of respiration.
  3. Describe how to perform a comprehensive respiratory assessment on the acute trauma patient.
  4. Integrate the anatomy, physiology and assessment principles in the airway management of patients through the use of case studies.
  5. Define a difficult airway.
  6. Describe the clinical decision making process for airway management.
  7. Discuss the indications, contraindications, complications and procedures associated with:
    1. head/tilt-chin/lift
    2. modified jaw thrust
    3. ventilation with a bag valve mask
    4. two rescuer bag valve mask ventilation
    5. orotracheal intubation
    6. nasotracheal intubation
    7. digital intubation
    8. needle decompression
    9. rapid sequence intubation
    10. needle cricothyroidotomy
    11. surgical cricothyroidotomy
    12. rescue airways (i.e. combitube & LMA )

Affective Objectives:

At the conclusion of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center Prehospital Advanced Airway Course, the advanced life support provider should be able to:

  1. Appreciate the importance of airway management in the acute trauma patient.
  2. Advocate for use of the proper airway management technique given the patient's signs and symptoms.

Psychomotor Objectives:

At the conclusion of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center Prehospital Advanced Airway Course, the advanced life support provider should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate, with proficiency:
    1. modified jaw thrust
    2. other techniques to adequately open an airway
    3. ventilation with a bag valve mask
    4. two rescuer ventilation with bag valve mask
    5. orotracheal intubation
    6. nasotracheal intubation
    7. ventilation of the intubated patient
    8. needle decompression
    9. insertion of the combitube
    10. assessment of the airway in the trauma patient
  2. Perform, with assistance:
    1. needle cricothyroidotomy
    2. surgical cricothyroidotomy

This course is designed strictly for the purpose of information and continuing education. This course does not certify any individual to practice any skill outside the excepted standards and training requirement established by MIEMSS and individual jurisdictions.



This page was last updated on: June 19, 2007.