Time:
 

Thursday November 29th 10.00 o’clock to Friday 30th 16:00 o’clock, 2012
Place:
 Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Price: 5.800 DKK (approx. 780 EUR), including course material, lunches and a working-dinner one evening. 
The course is a nonprofit course
 
Background: Problems with managing the airways are primary causes of serious complications and death in relation to anaesthesia. The course will provide you with tools to prevent this to happen to your patients.
 

Arranged by:

Department of Anaesthesia, 4231, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen. 
Telephone: +45 3545 3474. 
www.airwaymanagement.dk

Guest lecturers:

To be announced

Faculty:

 

Anaesthesiologists, pulmonologist, emergency-, intensive-care and pre-hospital physicians and ORL-surgeon with expertise in airway management

Course Director:

Michael Seltz Kristensen M.D. 
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Registration:

To secretary Jeanette Hautop: 
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Deadline is October 24th. The number of participants is limited due to the workshop.

Notice:
  1. The course language is English
  2. All participants are asked to bring along an airway-management patient-case (or question) for the discussion and workshop
 
 

THEORY

Awake intubation – making it a pleasant experience!

Preoperative evaluation of the airway made useful

Have a plan! Prehospital management

Fiberoptic intubation made easy!

The "cannot-intubate-cannot-ventilate"–situation. Recognition. Management choices.

The paediatric airway

Airway techniques and equipment – what is new and what do I really need?

Bronchoscopy and BAL in the ICU

Separating the lungs

Ultrasound and the airway

Frontline - what's next?

WORKSHOP

Hands on ultrasonography of the airway on real humans

Chricothyrotomy on larynxes from pigs

Fiberoptic airway management

On full-scale simulators, SimMan: Managing the "cannot-intubate-cannot-ventilate"-and the "cannot-intubate-can-ventilate" situation and other
Retrograde intubation and various devices (ILMA, Airtrach, Glidescope, McCoy, Henderson-, Retromolar, Easy-Tube, C-trach, Levitan, McGrath, AWS, etc.)

Lung separation and bronchial blockers

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