Airway Matters

This course has been carefully designed to provide an up-to-date and practical educational experience, with learners accessing comprehensive course materials developed in collaboration with leading experts, frontline clinicians, and patients. Week 1: Safe Airway Management, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Airway Anatomy Week 2: Airway Assessment and Planning, Cognitive Tools, Dealing with Emergencies Week 3: Safety and Special Techniques Week 4: The Shared Airways Week 5: Airway Management in Special Circumstances Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course, endorsed by the Difficult Airway Society , is for all members of the multidisciplinary team who provide airway support to patients, or care for patients with a compromised airway. This includes anaesthetists, anaesthesia associates, operating department practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, adult and paediatric intensivists, prehospital and emergency medicine physicians, paramedics, head and neck surgeons and members of the cardiac arrest team. The course is in English and the learning outcomes are relevant to UK based and international colleagues. Health professionals might find the Certificate of Achievement for this course useful for providing evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) or commitment to their career. You can use the hashtag #AirwayMatters to talk about this course on social media.

• Airway Safety: The Big Picture
• NAP4, Key Findings and Recommendations
• Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Anatomy: a Journey Through the Airways
• Assess the Airway and Develop a Strategy
• Airway Equipment
• Cognitive Tools
• Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate
• Rapid Sequence Induction
• Extubation
• The Obstructed Airway
• Special Techniques: Awake Tracheal Intubation, High-Flow Nasal Oxygenation, Jet Ventilation, LASER
• The Patient Journey
• Tracheostomies and Laryngectomies
• The Critically Ill Patient
• Prehospital Airway Management
• Paediatrics
• Obstetrics
• Obesity
• A Global Perspective