The Definitive EMS Airway Course
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Learn the full range of airway management techniques — including use of video laryngoscopes & other advanced imaging devices, extraglottic devices, drug-assisted intubation and cricothyrotomy.
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Work with expert faculty who know the unique challenges facing EMS providers.
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Use proven airway devices in small group sessions.
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Practice decision-making and airway techniques in Code AirwayTM simulations.
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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.
Didactic and Hands-on Training
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Prediction of the Difficult Airway
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Video Laryngoscopy and other advanced imaging devices
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Medication-assisted Intubation (including RSI and RSA)
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Pediatric intubation
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Endotracheal tube introducers (bougie)
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Cricothyrotomy
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Extraglottic devices
Find a course near you
The Difficult Airway Course: EMS
Des Moines , Iowa
December 13 - 14, 2018
The Difficult Airway Course: EMS
Tamworth,
December 13 - 14, 2018
The Difficult Airway Course: EMS
Houston, TX
December 18 - 19, 2018
The Difficult Airway Course: EMS
Reading,
January 28 - 29, 2019
The Difficult Airway Course: EMS
Bangor, Gwynedd
January, 31 - February, 1, 2019
The Difficult Airway Course: EMS
Johnson City, TN
February 9 - 10, 2019
Course Fees:
Course fees vary. Please contact the Authorized Training Center in your area for more information.
Become a Training Center
For further information about becoming an Authorized Training Center please contact Terry T. Steele at 860-679-9285 or tsteele@theairwaysite.com
Contact Course Director
CE/CH Credit
This continuing education activity is approved by First Airway, LLC, an organization accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Pre-Hospital Continuing Education (CAPCE). CAPCE Activity #17-FirstAir-F2-0001. CEH Number and Type: 16.0 Advanced.
16.0 Contact Hours have been provided by the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association (Certificate #2017-49). ASTNA is an approved provider for the California Board of Registered Nursing CEP 13575.
Regional Course Directors
| Name | Area | |
| Fred Ellinger | fred.ellinger@difficultairway.net | USA: Delaware, Washington DC, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania |
| Michael Keller | mkeller@theairwaysite.com | USA: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia |
| Ken Davis | ken.davis@emsrx.com | USA: Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico |
| Kevin Franklin | kmfranklin@mac.com | USA: Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska |
| Cory Cox | cory.cox@hsc.utah.edu | USA: Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Alaska |
| Jamie Todd | jamie@theairwaysite.com | Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Hungary, Former Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Serbia), Albania, Greece, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova, Algeria, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Malta, Italy |
| Rudy Princi | Rudolph.Princi@stonybrookmedicine.edu | USA: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island |
| James Habstritt | james@promedics.org | Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan |