Description

Instructors: Mackenzie Wardle, Lorri Beatty, David Paré, Brett Shaw, Craig McArthur, and Bryan Weber
Date: October 2, 2025 (full day)

CME and FAWM is available for this course!

Description:

Advanced Airway Management in the austere environment is a high acuity low occurrence event surrounded by compounding challenges of environment, team dynamics, equipment limitations and significant transportation logistics. These can be unanticipated occurrences with sudden onset. All these can lead to challenges for the Advanced Life Support provider.

During this workshop participants will;

• Review literature and resources prior to the workshop

• Develop skills to optimize team dynamics

• Discuss cognitive offloading resources

• Understand BVM use in pre-oxygenation

• Review advanced airway techniques in the context of the austere environment

• Discuss improvised advanced airway techniques

• Utilize commercial and improvised airway devices in a simulated austere environment.

Objectives:

• Discuss team dynamics in the rescuer environment.

• Discuss the utilization of Checklists and other reference materials for success in high-risk environments.

• Understand the latest literature surrounding success of prehospital airway devices

• Demonstrate high quality BLS airway management techniques

• Discuss laryngoscopy and video laryngoscopy challenges and optimization in an outdoor environment.

• Understand techniques for soiled airway management

• Preform cricothyrotomy utilizing high fidelity simulators

• Discussion regarding the use of oxygen in austere environments.

• Weather permitting simulate difficult intubation environments in an outdoor setting utilizing low fidelity devices

Please note, if you are no longer able to attend the course, you must email programdirector@cawm.ca. The final day to receive a refund is September 18, 2025.

In the event that the course is cancelled due to low registration numbers, all participants will be notified by September 8, 2025 and will receive a full refund.