About this Event
Target Audience: Nurses/ODPs in critical care areas, accident and emergency (A&E) departments, intensive care units (ICU), operating theatres, and post-anaesthesia care units (PACU) with moderate upper airway abilities.
Course Description
This course is designed to give Critical Care Nurses/ODPs an approach to management of the upper airway.
The Airway Assistant (Nurse or ODP) plays a unique function with a particular skill set, collaborating with the Airway Doctor to prepare, plan, anticipate difficulties, and fix them as they arise. Even if the Airway Assistant is not the primary decision maker, they may be in a better position to think clearly, offer suggestions, and provide perspective when issues arise, so enhancing the airway operators' capacity to manage the airway.
The Airway Assistant is very much an equal partner in airway management.
Commonly reported airway events in Critical Care include difficult and failed intubation and tracheostomy related problems. Themes associated with airway disasters include failure to identify high risk airways and failure of advanced airway skills and rescue techniques. In most airway incidents there is an element of failure in non-technical skills such as with communication and performance under stress.
The main focus of this course will be to develop expertise in rescue techniques and decision-making in a crisis situation. Case studies will be used to illustrate situational awareness and enhance airway team performance.
The Course will cover
• Video laryngoscopy
• Laryngeal mask airways as a rescue device
• Situational awareness and decision making
• Front of neck airway (cricothyrotomy)
• Tracheostomy related problems
• Intubation planning and preparation
• Anticipated and unanticipated difficult intubation
• Endotracheal tube exchange
• FAQs eg laryngeal spasm, BURP, cricoid pressure
Faculty
RN Kumi De Costa, Simulation Program Nurse Lead RN Anand Kannan, Senior ODP and Practice Educator
RN Rosie Cervera-Jackson, Lead Nurse for Critical Care Education & Development
RN Jhon Garcia Grajales, Practice Educator for Post-anaesthetic care Unit
Dr Amy Chan-Dominy EDIC MRCA AFICM Dr Sara Mele FRCA
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom
GBP 60.00