Overview
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?
The Airway Matters course from UCL by FutureLearn 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.
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.
Identify the key learning points and recommendations from the 4th National Audit Project (NAP4) on major complications of airway management in the UK.
Apply the principles of multidisciplinary planning, communication and teamwork in shared airways interventions.
Describe the technical and non-technical aspects of safe airway management for patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery, and the critically ill.
Engage in a global discussion on airway matters with health professionals from around the world.
Programme Structure
What topics will you cover?
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
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
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 35 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Management Studies Human Medicine Complementary & Alternative Medicine View 10 other Short Courses in Complementary & Alternative Medicine in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
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.
Tuition Fee
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International
69 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 69 USD for the full programme during 35 days. -
National
69 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 69 USD for the full programme during 35 days.
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Funding
Studyportals Tip: Students can search online for independent or external scholarships that can help fund their studies. Check the scholarships to see whether you are eligible to apply. Many scholarships are either merit-based or needs-based.