The Duke Advanced Airway Program in the Department of Anesthesiology offers a multidisciplinary comprehensive training course in advanced airway management to attending physicians, residents, and fellows of anesthesiology, ENT, critical care, and emergency 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 strategies based on detailed physical examination, airway evaluation, radiological studies and preoperative nasal airway examination.
  2. Recognize signs of difficult airway and devise appropriate airway management strategy in the unanticipated difficult airway.
  3. Describe the techniques to adequately topicalize the airway and perform safe awake tracheal intubation in patients with difficult airway.
  4. Describe the techniques used for achieving lung isolation with double lumen tubes and bronchial blockers.
  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 
Various participants at the Duke Advanced Airway Course

Meet the Team

Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Paul G. Barash Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology
Various participants at the Duke Advanced Airway Course

Agenda

April 25, 2025 | Duke North 2001

Time Topic Speaker
4.30-5:00 pm Welcome and Introduction to Advanced Airway Course Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA
5:00-5:30 pm Duke Advanced Airway Lecture: Management of Traumatic Airway Vijay Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
5.30-6.00 pm Airway Management: Surgical Airway as the Primary Approach Alissa Collins, MD
6:00-6:30 pm Dinner Break  
6:30-7:00 pm Pediatric Airway Warwick Ames, MBBS, MD
7:00-7:30 pm Video Laryngoscopy Should be Standard of Care: Pro vs Con Pro: Taylor Herbert, MD, PhD
Con: Vijay Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
7:30-8:00 pm Awake Intubation: Nerve Block vs Topicalization Airway Nerve Block: Jeffrey Gadsden, MD, FRCPC, FANZCA
Airway Topicalization: Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA
8:00-9:00 pm Resident’s Corner: Case Based Discussion
1. Case 1: Haley Amenson, MD
2. Case 2: Marc Ghabach, MD
3. Case 3: Anne Walker, MD
4. Case 4: Robert Chu, MD
Moderator: Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA
9:00-9:30 pm Conclusion Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA

April 26, 2025 | Duke SIM Center

Time Topic Speaker
9:00 am-11:00 am Airway Workshops Session I  
  Station 1: Supraglottic Airway for Rescue Nicole Guinn, MD, MBA
  Station 2: Video Laryngoscopes and Airway Exchange Catheters Taylor Herbert, MD, PhD
  Station 3: Jet Ventilation Vijay Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
  Station 4: Flexible Scope Intubation Miriam Treggiari, MD, PhD, MPH
Kathleen Claus, MD
  Station 5: Surgical Cricothyroidotomy Alissa Collins, MD
Yuriy Bronshteyn, MD, FASE
  Station 6: Airway Ultrasound Sarada Eleswarpu, MD
Vijay Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
  Station 7: One Lung Ventilation Negmeldeen Mamoun, MD, PhD
  Station 8: Retrograde Intubation Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA
11:00 am-12:00 pm Lunch Break  
12:00-2:00 pm Airway Workshops Sessions II  
  Airway Workshop Stations: Session I and Session II  
  Station 1: Supraglottic Airway for Rescue Nicole Guinn, MD, MBA
  Station 2: Video Laryngoscopes and Airway Exchange Catheters Taylor Herbert, MD, PhD
  Station 3: Jet Ventilation Vijay Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
  Station 4: Flexible Scope Intubation Miriam Treggiari, MD, PhD, MPH
Kathleen Claus, MD
  Station 5: Surgical Cricothyroidotomy Alissa Collins, MD
Yuriy Bronshteyn, MD, FASE
  Station 6: Airway Ultrasound Sarada Eleswarpu, MD
Vijay Ramaiah, MBBS, MD
  Station 7: One Lung Ventilation Negmeldeen Mamoun, MD, PhD
  Station 8: Retrograde Intubation Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA
Various participants at the Duke Advanced Airway Course

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.
Various participants at the Duke Advanced Airway Course