Department of Anesthesiology

Arndt Advanced Skills in Airway Management Lecture Series and Hands-On Workshop

Notice: The Arndt Advanced Skills in Airway Management Lecture Series and Hands-On Workshop is typically held in October of each year. 

Course Description

The Arndt Advanced Skills in Airway Management Lecture Series and Hands-On Workshop is intended to meet the needs of clinicians and other health care professionals who require clinical skills in advanced airway management. The intended audience includes anesthesiologists, emergency room physicians, intensive care physicians, nurse anesthetists, anesthesiologist assistants, perioperative nurses, residents of various training programs, fellows, and respiratory therapists.

The field of airway management continues to evolve. This activity is held in response to the need for basic and advanced airway management knowledge and skills in the operating room, emergency room, intensive care unit, and non-operating room settings. The goal of this course is to teach the skills and tools of basic and advanced airway management required in elective and emergent situations, while introducing newer airway management technologies.

The course typically covers supraglottic airway and video laryngoscopy devices, cricothyroidotomy and TTJV, fiberoptic intubation, retrograde intubation, techniques for airway rescue in the setting of failed intubation, and lung isolation techniques, including double-lumen tubes and wire-guided endobronchial blockade. The course may also address, in particular, unique difficulties that can be encountered in the pediatric patient. The course incorporates airway skills workshops and high-fidelity simulation to practice difficult airway management techniques.

Course Objectives

  • Apply a thorough understanding and practical knowledge of the basics of airway assessment in your clinical practice.
  • Recognize the signs of potentially difficult intubation and airway management.
  • Develop a plan for dealing with a known difficult airway.
  • Discuss indications for various airway management devices.
  • Develop effective management strategies to deal with challenging airway scenarios.
  • Demonstrate working knowledge of a variety of newer airway management devices.
  • Recognize difficulties associated with management of the difficult airway in the emergency department, ICU, and non-operating room locations.

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Course Goals

  1. Review basic principles of crew and crisis resource management and team communication in the context of the practice of anesthesiology and critical care medicine.
  2. Immerse learners in difficult patient-care challenges that occur frequently or infrequently in clinical practice and present substantial risk of patient morbidity or mortality.
  3. Expose through instructor-facilitated, reflective debriefing, personal or system-based targets suitable for personal skill, knowledge, practice pattern, or quality improvement initiatives.
  4. Fulfill the Practice Performance Assessment and Improvement (PPAI) Part IV simulation education requirement of the ABA MOCA® program.

 

Course Objectives

  1. List three basic principles of crew and crisis resource management.
  2. Discuss the basic principles and clinical management of critical events and challenges presented during the course.
  3. Demonstrate effective teamwork and communication skills.
  4. Identify targets for personal or systems-based practice improvement.

Duration

8 hours (8:00 am – 4:00 pm)

Typical Schedule

7:45 am Check-in and breakfast

8:00 am Welcome and Introductions

Learning space familiarization

Crisis resource management, team work, and communication lecture

9:00 am Scenario #1 and debriefing

9:50 am Break

10:00 am Scenario #2 and debriefing

10:50 am Break

11:00 am Scenario #3 and debriefing

11:50 am Lunch with group PPAI discussion

12:45 pm Scenario #4 and debriefing

1:35 pm Break

1:45 pm Scenario #5 and debriefing

2:35 pm Break

2:45 pm Scenario #6 and debriefing

3:30 pm Course wrap up, evaluations, and review of learning

4:00 pm Course adjournment

Pricing

Class sizes are limited. Advanced registration is required. No on-site registration.

Early registration (≥ 30 calendar days before course date): $1650

Late registration (< 30 calendar days before course date): $1750

Very late registration (≤ 7 days before course date): $1850

Discounts for current UWSMPH faculty, UW Anesthesiology Residency alumni, and groups (≥ 4 learners) are available. For discount information, please contact Adam Weinstein, MD.

All pricing includes parking, breakfast, lunch, course materials, and CME credits.

We currently cannot accept payments on-line, so after registration you can either mail payment via check, or provide credit card information through contact with the Simulation Program office. Payments received within 7 business days will be credited to the registration date. We reserve the right to cancel the registration if payment is not received within 7 business days.

Cancellation Policy

Course Cancellation: A minimum of three learners is required to run a course session. If three learners have not registered within three weeks of the course session date, the course session will be canceled and a full refund of registration fees will be returned to each registered learner. Alternatively, the registered learner may apply paid funds towards registration in a future course session.

Learner Cancellation: All learner cancellations must be received in writing via either email or by a mailed letter. The cancellation date is based on the date the email is received or the post-mark date of the mailed letter. A full refund (minus a $200 cancellation fee) will be provided for all cancellations made more than 30 days prior to the course date. Given the small class size, last minute cancellations can significantly impact the learning experience for other course registrants. Therefore, late learner cancellations are strongly discouraged. Learner cancellations at or within 30 days of the course date will not be refunded (exception: if a cancelling learner is able to find another person to fill their slot, a full refund of the course fee, minus the $200 cancellation fee, will be provided).

Accommodations

Participants are responsible for arranging lodging and transportation to and from the UW Health Simulation Center as needed. There are several local hotels in the area: Map

Useful Links

  1. UW Health Clinical Simulation Program (https://www.med.wisc.edu/clinical-simulation-program/)
  2. ASA FAQs about simulation courses offered for Part IV MOCA® credit (http://education.asahq.org/sim/faq)
  3. ABA MOCA® website (http://www.theaba.org/Home/anesthesiology_maintenance)

Accreditation Statement

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Credit Designation Statement

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

MOCA® Credit Statement

The Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and the UW Health Clinical Simulation Program is an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)-endorsed center offering a one-day simulation training course in anesthesia crisis management that fulfills the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology® (MOCA®) Part IV simulation education requirement. Completion of the course provides board-certified anesthesiologists with MOCA® credit for one Part IV component. Please consult the ABA website, http://www.theABA.org, for a list of all other MOCA® requirements. MOCA® and Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program® are registered trademarks of The American Board of Anesthesiology, Inc.

Policy on Disclosure

It is the policy of UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health that the faculty, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this CME/MOCA® activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests in order to allow CME/MOCA® staff to identify and resolve any potential conflicts of interest. Faculty must also disclose any planned discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). Detailed disclosures will be made in the activity handout materials.

MOCA® Course Director

Adam Weinstein, MD

Faculty Instructors

Michael Hannaman, MD

Adam Weinstein, MD

Karl Willmann, MD

Karin Zuegge, MD

Course and Center Staff

Krystle K. Campbell

Mark Johanneck

Cathy Means, MS

Elizabeth Mullikin, MS

Mary Kate O’Leary

Erick Przybylski