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Prehospital Emergency Airway Course

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Initial PEAC

This one-day evidence-based course is designed for all advanced level prehospital providers who manage airways in critically ill patients.

  • This 8-hour course combines lecture with advanced skills and high-fidelity simulation.

  • Topics include:

    • How training and experience impact patient care

    • The basics of the anatomically difficult airway

    • Prehospital airway algorithms

    • Alternative and back up techniques for airway management

    • Video laryngoscope

    • Surgical airways

    • Bougie techniques

    • Use of checklists and how to increase first pass success rates

    • The importance of oxygenation

    • Airway management in the critically ill patient

    • Pharmacology update

    Included with this course is The Airway Card, and a cricothyrotomy model.

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Pediatric Airway

The pediatric PEAC builds on the initial PEAC course.

  • This 4-hour course covers comprehensive pediatric airway management.

  • Students will learn the following for pediatric airways:

    • Physiologic and anatomic differences

    • The difficult pediatric airway

    • Pediatric SGA

    • Pediatric video laryngoscopy

    • Needle cricothyrotomy

    • Foreign body airway obstruction

    • Pharmacology update

    • Scenario based learning

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Special Populations

The special populations PEAC builds on the initial PEAC course.

  • This 4-hour course covers airway management in special populations including: trauma, obese, pregnancy, reactive airway and more.

  • Students will learn techniques for the following patient populations:

    • Trauma

    • Elevated ICP and neurologic emergencies

    • Reactive airway

    • Status seizure

    • The pregnant patient

    • The morbidly obese

    • Massively soiled airways

Prehospital Emergency Airway Course

Train the Trainer

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Train the Trainer

This course includes a 4-hour online pre-course in addition to an 16-hour in-person course.

  • Trainers will be supplied with all the material needed to teach the all 3 courses including outlines, schedules, lectures (with teaching points), detailed skills stations, and simulation scenarios.

  • This class is designed for experienced providers with a passion for airway education.

  • MDP approval and WA state EMS Evaluator certification to attend.

  • Endorsed by the WA State Fire Chiefs and the WA State MPDs as a continued airway education course.

This course is endorsed by the WA State Fire Chiefs Association and WA state MPDs.