Upgrade your Airway Skills with The Difficult Airway Course: EMS™

Date: March 28 – 29, 2011
Credits: *15+
Location: Gilmore Health Education Center, Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI
Sponsored by: West Michigan Air Care

For registration and course information call (269) 329-2040 or visit www.theairwaysite.com

Course fee: $350

  • Experience the only EMS airway course that is designed by the authors of the definitive airway textbook Manual of Emergency Airway Management – Drs. Ron M. Walls, Michael F. Murphy and Robert C. Luten.  Participants receive a copy of the Manual (a $67.95 value!).
  • Learn the full range of Airway Management techniques—not just RSI.
  • Work with expert faculty who know the unique challenges facing EMS providers.  All of our faculty members are practicing medical providers who perform airway management regularly.
  • Use all of the airway devices in small group sessions.
  • Practice decision-making and airway techniques in Code Airway Stations.
  • Face the most challenging patient scenarios in a no-risk environment.  These include elevated ICP, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock, status asthmaticus, foreign body in the airway, direct airway trauma, multiple trauma with shock, and many more.
  • Meet your continuing education requirements.  This course is approved by CECBEMS, ASTNA and AAPA. 

“Every practicing paramedic should be required to take this course. It has changed the way that I will approach airway management.”
– Cindy Johnson, RN, NREMT-P

“This course is the best course that I have experienced in over 15 years.  Every aspect of the course is applicable to my practice.  A real confidence booster.”
– Stephen Thompson, NREMT-P, Arizona

*CE Credits
15.5 Contact Hours have been provided by the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association (Certificate #2009-12).  ASTNA is an approved provider for the California Board of Registered Nursing CEP 13575.
Approved by the Continuing Education Coordinating Board for Emergency Medical Services (CECBEMS).  CECBEMS Activity #08-CECB-F2-0849.  CEH Number and Type:  15.0 Advanced.
This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 16 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME credit by the Physician Assistant Review Panel.

Article Archive

Newsletter PDF Archive