Airway Matters

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UCL (University College London)

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What is the course about?

Airway Matters

The course Airway Matters is an online class provided by UCL (University College London) through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Explore key concepts underlying safe, multidisciplinary airway management.

Course description

Develop safe airway management strategies for your patients
5 weeks

The safe management of a patient’s airway is one of the most challenging and complex tasks undertaken by a health professional – complications can result in devastating outcomes.
How can we improve safety, prevent complications, and be prepared to manage difficulties when they arise?
How, in a crisis, can we ensure that human and technical resources are best utilised?
Our course will provide answers to these key questions and help you develop strategies to improve patient safety in your area of practice, discussing safe airway management in patient groups and multidisciplinary clinical settings.
This course has been updated with the latest guidance on airway management in patients with COVID-19 and relevant personal protective equipment.

Airway Safety: The Big Picture
NAP4, Key Findings and Recommendations
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Airway Management in patients with COVID-19
Anatomy: a Journey Through the Airways
Assess the Airway and Develop a Strategy
Airway Equipment
Cognitive Tools
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate
Rapid Sequence Induction
Extubation
The Obstructed Airway
Special Techniques: Awake Tracheal Intubation, High-Flow Nasal Oxygenation, Jet Ventilation, LASER
The Patient Journey
Tracheostomies and Laryngectomies
The Critically Ill Patient
Prehospital Airway Management
Paediatrics
Obstetrics
Obesity
A Global Perspective

Improve your strategies to deal with the unexpected difficult airway and explore guidelines to use in special circumstances.
Identify the key learning points and recommendations from the 4th National Audit Project (NAP4) on major complications of airway management in the UK.
Apply the principles of multidisciplinary planning, communication and teamwork in shared airways interventions.
Describe the technical and non-technical aspects of safe airway management for patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery, and the critically ill.
Engage in a global discussion on airway matters with health professionals from around the world.
Describe challenges to health professionals when managing airways of patients with COVID-19

This course, endorsed by the Difficult Airway Society, is for all members of the multidisciplinary team who provide airway support to patients, or care for patients with a compromised airway. This includes anaesthetists, anaesthesia associates, operating department practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, adult and paediatric intensivists, prehospital and emergency medicine physicians, paramedics, head and neck surgeons and members of the cardiac arrest team.
The course is in English and the learning outcomes are relevant to UK based and international colleagues.
Health professionals might find the Certificate of Achievement for this course useful for providing evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) or commitment to their career.

UCL (University College London)
UCL was founded in 1826. It was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, and the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it.
University College London Hospitals
UCLH provides first class general and specialist services to patients locally in London and from throughout the UK and abroad.

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Airway Matters

Course Topic

Healthcare & Medicine, Nursing

University, College, Institution

UCL (University College London)

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Airway Matters

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / UCL (University College London) you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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