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:
- Develop appropriate airway management strategies based on detailed physical examination, airway evaluation, radiological studies and preoperative nasal airway examination.
- Recognize signs of difficult airway and devise appropriate airway management strategy in the unanticipated difficult airway.
- Describe the techniques to adequately topicalize the airway and perform safe awake tracheal intubation in patients with difficult airway.
- Describe the techniques used for achieving lung isolation with double lumen tubes and bronchial blockers.
- Develop appropriate plans to manage patients with anticipated difficult extubation.
What is Included
- Certificate of completion
- Breakfast and lunch for both days
Meet the Team
Agenda
This is a preliminary agenda and subject to change.
April 17, 2026 | Duke North 2001
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00-5:30 pm | Welcome and Introduction to Advanced Airway Course | Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA |
| 5:30-6:00 pm | Advances in Airway Examination | Vijay Ramaiah, MBBS, MD |
| 6:00-6:30 pm | Mediastinal Mass and Airway Challenges | Annemarie Thompson, MD |
| 6:30-7:00 pm | Airway Management: Surgical Airway as the Primary Approach | Alissa Collins, MD |
| 7:00-7:30 pm | Break | |
| 7:30-8:00 pm | Pro vs Con Awake Intubation: Nerve Block vs Topicalization |
Airway Nerve Block: Jeffrey Gadsden, MD, FRCPC, FANZCA Airway Topicalization: Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA |
| 8:00-8:30 pm | Pro vs Con Ketaime vs Etomidate for ICU Intubations |
Pro: Taylor Herbert, MD, PhD Con: Kathleen Claus, MD |
| 8:30-9:30 pm | Resident’s Corner: Case Based Discussion 1. Case 1 2. Case 2 3. Case 3 |
Moderator: Ryan Gessouroun, MD |
| 9:30-9:40 pm | Conclusion |
April 18, 2026 | Duke SIM Center
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am-12:00 pm | Airway Workshop Sessions | |
| Station 1: Supraglottic Airway for Rescue | Nicole Guinn, MD, MBA Ryan Gessouroun, MD |
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| Station 2: Video Laryngoscopes and Airway Exchange Catheters | Taylor Herbert, MD, PhD | |
| Station 3: Flexible Scope Intubation | Miriam Treggiari, MD, PhD, MPH Kathleen Claus, MD |
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| Station 4: Surgical Cricothyroidotomy | Alissa Collins, MD | |
| Station 5: Airway Ultrasound | Sarada Eleswarpu, MD | |
| Station 6: One Lung Ventilation | Negmeldeen Mamoun, MD, PhD | |
| Station 7: Retrograde Intubation | Vijay Ramaiah, MBBS, MD | |
| 12:00-12:30 pm | Conclusion and Adjourn | Chakib Ayoub, MD, MBA |
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.
