Command the Airway with Rich Levitan An emergency airway masterclass CME VIDEOS

A simplified and incrementalised approach to laryngoscopy, this course includes six lectures plus multiple tutorials on the skills of airway management.

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This course contains some graphic images that may not be suitable for all viewers.

Target Audience

Highly recommended for all critical care providers.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

• Adopt techniques to combat stress during highly-skilled procedures
• Improve patient positioning, resuscitation and oxygenation prior to intubation
• Adopt a simplified and incrementalised approach to laryngoscopy
• Improve cord visualisation, tube delivery and first-pass success

Module 1: Crisis Performance

•  Lecture: Crisis Performance

Module 2: Oxygenation

•  Lecture: Oxygenation
•  Tutorial: Issues with BVM Ventilation
•  Tutorial: Upright Positioning

Module 3: Incrementalised Laryngoscopy

•  Lecture: Incrementalised Laryngoscopy
•  Tutorial: Incrementalised Laryngoscopy Part 1
•  Tutorial: Incrementalised Laryngoscopy Part 2
•  Tutorial: Epiglottis-Only View
•  Tutorial: Straight-To-Cuff Stylet
•  Tutorial: Straight-To-Cuff Stylet: Tube Delivery
•  Tutorial: Bougies: How To Hold
•  Tutorial: Bougies: Preloaded Tubes
•  Tutorial: Bougies: Tube Delivery

Module 4: Video Laryngoscopy

•  Lecture: Video Laryngoscopy
•  Tutorial: The Mac 4 Blade
•  Tutorial: Mac Blades vs Hyperangulated Blades
•  Tutorial: Hyperangulated Blades Part 1
•  Tutorial: Hyperangulated Blades Part 2

Module 5: Supraglottic Airways & Paediatrics

•  Lecture: Supraglottic Airways and Paediatrics
•  Tutorial: Supraglottic Airways
•  Tutorial: Igel Placement
•  Tutorial: SGA’s – A Conduit To Intubation

Module 6: The Surgical Airway

•  Lecture: The Surgical Airway
•  Tutorial: The Surgical Airway Part 1
•  Tutorial: The Surgical Airway Part 2

Professor Levitan is an Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dartmouth School of Medicine (New Hampshire), visiting Professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland). Professor Levitan is director of the New York City Airway Course, the Yellowstone Airway Course and the worlds largest cadaver airway course, in Baltimore (monthly for 16 years).

Prof. Levitan has given more than 350 invited international lectures on airway management and authored 42 publications and 3 textbooks on airway management. He is the inventor of the AirwayCam, which captured real-time, advanced airway skills for the first time. These resources have been used in 4000 hospitals in 26 different countries.