The Duke Advanced Airway Program in the Department of Anesthesiology is offering a multidisciplinary comprehensive training course in advanced airway management to attending physicians, residents and fellows of anesthesiology, ENT, and critical care medicine.

Course Highlights

  • Evidence-based lecture series
  • Difficult airway workshops
  • Surgical cricothyrotomy
  • Airway ultrasound
  • Case-based discussions
  • High-flow nasal oxygenation

Target Audience

Anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, emergency medicine physicians, residents and fellows of anesthesiology, critical medicine, otorhinolaryngology, and emergency medicine.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

  1. Develop appropriate airway management plan based on detailed physical examination including evaluation of the airway, radiological studies and preoperative nasal endoscopy
  2. Recognize signs of difficult airway and devise appropriate airway management plans in unanticipated difficult airway.
  3. Develop strategies in advanced airway management for patients with complex airway issues including difficult airway. 
  4. Describe techniques to adequately topicalize the airway and perform safe awake tracheal intubation in patients with difficult airway.
  5. Develop appropriate plans to manage patients with anticipated difficult extubation.

What is Included

  1. Certificate of completion
  2. Breakfast and lunch for both days 

Meet the Team

Chakib Ayoub

Chakib Ayoub

Professor of Anesthesiology
Bryant Walter Stolp

Bryant Walter Stolp

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Russel Roy Kahmke

Russel Roy Kahmke

Assistant Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Negmeldeen Mamoun

Negmeldeen Mamoun

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Vijay Kumar Ramaiah

Vijay Kumar Ramaiah

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Agenda

7:45-8:00 am Welcome and Introduction Chakib M. Ayoub, MD, MBA
8:00-10:30 am Evidence-Based Lecture Series  
8:00-8:30 am Difficult Airway Management Vijay K. Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
8:30-9:00 am Innovation in Airway Management Chakib M. Ayoub, MD, MBA
9:00-9:30 am: Supraglottic Airway Bret W. Stop, MD, PhD
9:30-9:40 am Q&A Session  
9:40-9:50 am: ENT Surgery Perspective of Difficulty Airway Russel R. Kahmke, MD, FACS, MMCi
9:50-10:10 am: Lung Isolation Negmeldeen F. Mamoun, MD
10:10- 10:30 am: Case Based Discussion Vijay K. Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
10:30-10:45 am Break  
10:45 am -12:15 pm Airway Workshops Session 1  
  Station 1: Video Laryngoscopy Bret W. Stop, MD, PhD
  Station 2: Flexible Scope Intubation Chakib M. Ayoub, MD, MBA
  Station 3: Intubating LMA and Supraglottic Airway as Conduit for Intubation Vijay K. Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
  Station 4: Lung Isolation and One Lung Ventilation Negmeldeen F. Mamoun, MD
  Station 5: Surgical Cricothyrotomy Swine Trachea Russel R. Kahmke, MD, FACS, MMCi
12:15-1:00 pm Lunch Break  
1:00-2:15 pm Airway Workshops Session 2  
  Station 6: Airway Exchange Catheters Negmeldeen F. Mamoun, MD
  Station 7: Retrograde Intubation Bret W. Stop, MD, PhD
  Station 8: Airway Ultrasound Vijay K. Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
  Station 9: Airway Blocks and Topicalization Chakib M. Ayoub, MD, MBA
2:15- 2:30 pm Conclusion Remarks Chakib M. Ayoub, MD, MBA
2:30 pm Adjourn  

Disclaimer

  • The information provided at this educational activity is for continuing medical education purposes only. It is meant for the sole use of persons intending to enhance their knowledge and understanding of advanced airway management and is NOT meant to substitute the independent medical judgment of a physician relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.
  • Every effort has been made in supplying information that is accurate and current. However, the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University Medical Center does not accept responsibility for errors or omissions and accepts no liability for any loss or damage howsoever arising.