The definitive EMS airway management class. www.theairwaysite.com

Please note: Students must purchase and bring the following textbook to class: The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management, 6th Edition. 

A difficult airway pocket guide is provided to all students. 

• Learn the full range of airway management techniques — including use of video laryngoscopes & other advanced imaging devices, extraglottic devices, drug-assisted intubation and cricothyrotomy.
• Work with expert faculty who know the unique challenges facing EMS providers.
• Use proven airway devices in small group sessions.
• Practice decision-making and airway techniques in Code AirwayTM simulations.
• Face the most challenging patient scenarios in a no-risk environment. These include: elevated ICP, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock, status asthmaticus foreign body in the airway, direct airway trauma, multiple trauma with shock, and many more.

This hands-on workshop is designed for paramedics seeking to enhance their skills in advanced ventilator management. Participants will engage in realistic patient scenarios, simulating both pre-hospital and interfacility transport situations. The course covers ventilator settings, troubleshooting, waveform analysis, and adapting ventilation strategies to complex patient presentations such as trauma, ARDS, and obstructive lung disease. Through guided case-based learning, attendees will build confidence and competence in critical ventilator decision-making under pressure.

NAEMT's Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care. The mission of PHTLS is to promote excellence in trauma patient management by all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care.  PHTLS is developed by NAEMT in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons' Committee on Trauma. The Committee provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program. 

PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care.

PHTLS is the global gold standard in prehospital trauma education and is taught in 64 countries. PHTLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians, and other prehospital providers. PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.

Class meets June 25, 0900-1700