Highlights

We are excited to introduce The Difficult Airway Course: Virtual 2020, the first virtual offering of The Difficult Airway Course. In response to great demand for airway education and the inability for medical professionals to travel and gather for traditional education during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have shifted to a virtual format for the first […]

We are pleased to announce the first winner of The Difficult Airway Course Alumni Award – Dr. Thomas Betjeman! Dr. Betjeman was nominated by Darren Braude, MD, Medical Director for The Difficult Airway Course: EMS. Read the full story in Dr. Braude’s nomination below: A male patient in his 70s presented to the ED of […]

Airway Management Education Center announces the launch of the COVID-19 Airway Management Resource Center. The faculty of The Difficult Airway Course™ are committed to arming health care providers with the latest information about emergency airway management in critically ill patients with known or suspected COVID-19, while keeping treatment teams as safe as possible.  With this […]

Safe intubation of the suspected COVID-19 patient is of upmost importance. Guidance on 3 steps to safe intubation of patients suspected of having COVID-19 is below in a convenient infographic. Please read and feel free to share this document with your colleagues! Download the PDF Here. Authored by: Calvin A. Brown, III, MD – National […]

The Difficult Airway Course (Emergency, Anesthesia and Critical Care) The leadership of Airway Management Education Center has made the difficult decision to cancel The Difficult Airway Courses in Boston (April 4 – 6) and Seattle (May 29 – 31).  Please click here for a statement from the Founders and National Course Directors. If you are […]

Airway Management Education Center, the creators of The Difficult Airway Course™, hosted the eighth annual “Airway Article of the Year” award show as a live webinar on December 12, 2019.  Webinar host, Calvin Brown III, MD presented four articles as finalists.  The nominees were selected from among all the articles covered during the Airway Management […]

The Difficult Airway Course made its way to Brazil, providing a unique learning experience to a new audience. Bringing the Course to Brazil was a long process, but it all came together in June. “It’s an exciting time to be involved in residency education in South America,” said David Caro, Co-Director of The Difficult Airway […]

Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) is excited to introduce Airway Manager: Emergency™, the newest educational experience from the creators of The Difficult Airway Course™. Airway Manager: Emergency on NEJM Knowledge+ is an online learning program that combines gold standard airway management education with leading-edge adaptive learning technology. The adaptive learning platform uses smart technology that […]

Several faculty members from The Difficult Airway Course have the privilege of working on the Project for Universal Airway Management (PUMA). Drs. J. Adam Law and John Sakles are part of a team working to create universal guidelines for airway management practices around the globe. Fellow faculty members Drs. Laura Duggan, Darren Braude and Jarrod […]

The airway community lost one of its best this past week. We are sad to share that Aaron Bair, a member of The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency faculty, has died. Aaron was an energetic member of The Difficult Airway Course family, always eager to improve the world with his innovative vision for medical education and […]