September 1 or 13, 2021 | NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Enroll now for Invasive Airway Management for the Anesthesiologist|The Unexpected Difficult Airway.
This two-hour course will be held in the Skills Acquisition & Innovation Lab (SAIL) at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Date and time:
Two sessions offered (choose one): Wednesday, September 1 or Monday, September 13, 2021
5:00 - 7:30 pm
Primary audience:
Attending anesthesiologists taking surgical call (S1), obstetric anesthesia call, obstetric-surgical call (OB-S)
Secondary audience:
Attending anesthesiologists taking cardiac call, and G-3 and F-10 lead anesthesiologists.
Course Director: Dr. Jon Samuels, Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Location:
Skills Acquisition & Innovation Lab (SAIL)
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
525 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
How to Register
Registration is required and there is a maximum of 20 participants per session.
- Prior to registering, please follow this link to take a short pre-course survey.
- After completing the survey, follow this link to register.
Overview
As part of the advanced clinical skills for those attending anesthesiologists taking overnight call, we will be offering targeted courses at the Skills Acquisition and Innovation Laboratory (SAIL). The first of these, The Scalpel-Cric Course will begin this summer.
Program highlights
A lecture component will cover the following topics:
- Background and historical perspective
- The American Society of Anesthesiologists Difficult Airway Algorithm – past, present and future.
- The Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society (NAP4). Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult airway in adults (2015 DAS guidelines).
- Regulatory issues
- Crisis Research Management (CRM)
- Surgical anatomy and physiology of the airway
- Video simulation: mock-up of a failed airway
- Debriefing session
- Invasive airway by the non-surgeon: old and new techniques
- Jet ventilation
- Seldinger cric
- Scalpel-cric
- Technical considerations
The hands-on workshop will cover the following topics:
Demonstration using laryngeal manikins, cadaveric tissue and the actual device used at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the ScalpelCric kit (VBM Medizintechnik GmbH, Sulz, Germany). On completion of the course, participants will perform the procedure while being filmed. Course participants will receive a copy of their performance via a secure link
How to Register
Registration is required and there is a maximum of 20 participants per session.
- Prior to registering, please follow this link to take a short pre-course survey.
- After completing the survey, follow this link to register.
Contact Us
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Jon Samuels
jos2001@med.cornell.edu