Our full day AirwaySkills programmes are designed for doctors practising in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine.

Course Dates

AirwaySkills courses will be conducted in Auckland at regular intervals. Extra courses will become available, at other times, as advised. Each course is strictly limited in numbers, so early registration is advised. Courses with their status set to FULL are fully booked.

Accreditation

AirwaySkills is approved by the ANZCA CPD Program. Hands-on tutorial, Category 3/Level 2: 3 Credits per hour. Pre-reading, Category 2/Level 1: 1Credit per hour. Approval number: 152 AirwaySkills is an Accredited Workshop by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Who are we?

Programme Director and Tutor: Dr Paul Baker

AirwaySkills Tutors: Dr Jeanette Scott, Dr Veronica Payne, Dr Paul Gardiner, Dr Grant Hounsell and Dr Craig Birch

Visiting Faculty (1996-2015): Prof. Viji Patil; Dr John Henderson; Prof. Carin Hagberg; Prof. Richard Levitan; Prof. Orlando Hung; Prof. William Rosenblatt; Prof. Elizabeth Behringer; Dr Nicholas Woodall

Venue

Simulation Centre for Patient Safety University of Auckland (SCPS)
85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland 1023

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Course Start and Finish times

Start time is 0800 End time is 1700. Directions, please refer to the Venue Map and enter the hospital grounds through the Main Vehicle Access off Park Road (see red dotted line).

Programme Objectives

Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Programme

After participating in this AirwaySkills “Hands-on Tutorial in Airway Management Techniques”, you will be able to:

• Identify the features of a difficult airway
• Apply planned strategies when managing the difficult airway
• Prepare and conduct an awake intubation
• Develop an extubation plan
• Optimise ventilation and intubation attempts
• Choose and utilize alternative ventilation and intubation techniques
• Use the fibreoptic bronchoscope for intubation with a range of techniques
• Conduct emergency airway procedures including transtracheal jet ventilation, cricothyroidotomy, and surgical cricothyroidotomy
• Understand safe airway management principles and apply them to a range of clinical case scenarios

Emergency Medicine Programme

On completion of the Emergency Airway Course the participant will be able to:

• Identify the features of a difficult airway
• Prepare a plan to manage a difficult airway
• Optimise ventilation and intubation attempts
• Use direct laryngoscopy applying first pass success principles
• Apply a rapid sequence induction in a difficult airway
• Manage a cannot intubate, cannot ventilate situation
• Conduct emergency airway procedures including transtracheal jet ventilation, cannula cricothyroidotomy and surgical cricothyroidotomy
• Choose and utilize alternative ventilation and intubation techniques
• Understand safe airway management principles and apply them to a range of clinical case scenarios

Terms and Conditions

Cancellation/Refund policy

To keep our course fees as low as possible we have the following cancellation/refund policy:-

• Cancellation in writing 30 days or more prior to a course will result in a full refund, less a 7.5% administration fee
• Less than 30 days: course fees are non- refundable for cancellations within 30 days and course fees may not be transferred to future courses. Candidates may arrange a substitute participant with AirwaySkills’ approval.

AirwaySkills reserves the right to cancel planned courses. This could occur at short notice and could apply if the minimum number of participants has not been confirmed or other essential requirements for a course change. In the extremely unlikely event that this occurs you will be offered rescheduling on a course to suit you or a full refund.