Airway Matters Course - UCL (University College London)
Online, United Kingdom
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: This UCL online course explores safe multidisciplinary airway management, human factors, ergonomics, anatomy, assessment, planning, cognitive tools, emergencies, rapid sequence induction, extubation, awake intubation, tracheostomy care, pediatrics, obstetrics, obesity, prehospital and critical care, plus COVID-19 PPE guidance. It runs 5 weeks with modular weekly topics and case-based materials developed with experts. airway management, intubation, patient safety.
It suits multidisciplinary clinicians.
Career Outcomes: Completing this course can support roles in anesthesia, critical care, emergency medicine, prehospital care, operating department practice and perioperative nursing. Career opportunities may include anesthesia associate, ICU clinician, emergency clinician, paramedic, airway educator or clinical governance lead.
Explore key concepts underlying safe, multidisciplinary airway management.
Develop safe airway management strategies for your patients
The safe management of a patient’s airway is one of the most challenging and complex tasks undertaken by a health professional - complications can result in devastating outcomes.
How can we improve safety, prevent complications, and be prepared to manage difficulties when they arise?
How, in a crisis, can we ensure that human and technical resources are best utilised?
Our course will provide answers to these key questions and help you develop strategies to improve patient safety in your area of practice, discussing safe airway management in patient groups and multidisciplinary clinical settings.
This course has been updated with the latest guidance on airway management in patients with COVID-19 and relevant personal protective equipment.
What topics will you cover?
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
- Airway Safety: The Big Picture
- NAP4, Key Findings and Recommendations
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Airway Management in patients with COVID-19
- Anatomy: a Journey Through the Airways
Week 2: Airway Assessment and Planning, Cognitive Tools, Dealing with Emergencies
- Assess the Airway and Develop a Strategy
- Airway Equipment
- Cognitive Tools
- Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate
Week 3: Safety and Special Techniques
- Rapid Sequence Induction
- Extubation
- The Obstructed Airway
- Special Techniques: Awake Tracheal Intubation, High-Flow Nasal Oxygenation, Jet Ventilation, LASER
Week 4: The Shared Airways
- The Patient Journey
- Tracheostomies and Laryngectomies
- The Critically Ill Patient
- Prehospital Airway Management
Week 5: Airway Management in Special Circumstances
- Paediatrics
- Obstetrics
- Obesity
- A Global Perspective
When would you like to start?
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.
- Date to be announced
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:
- Improve your strategies to deal with the unexpected difficult airway and explore guidelines to use in special circumstances.
- Apply the principles of multidisciplinary planning, communication and teamwork in shared airways interventions.
- Engage in a global discussion on airway matters with health professionals from around the world.
- Identify the key learning points and recommendations from the 4th National Audit Project (NAP4) on major complications of airway management in the UK.
- Describe the technical and non-technical aspects of safe airway management for patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery, and the critically ill.
- Describe challenges to health professionals when managing airways of patients with COVID-19.
Who is the course for?
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.
Who will you learn with?
Who developed the course?
UCL (University College London)
UCL was founded in 1826. It was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, and the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it.
University College London Hospitals
UCLH provides first-class general and specialist services to patients locally in London and from throughout the UK and abroad.
