In conjunction with the start of their annual meeting, the National Association of EMS Physicians released their Compendium of Airway Management Position Statements and Resource Documents. Two of those articles feature faculty for The Difficult Airway Course on their panel of authors.  Darren Braude, MD, EMT-P, Medical Director for The Difficult Airway Course: EMS is […]

Airway Management Education Center, the creators of The Difficult Airway Course™, hosted the tenth annual “Airway Article of the Year” award show as a live webinar on December 16, 2021.  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 […]

In honor of No-Shave November, we asked the bearded Steve Carleton, MD, PhD (senior faculty of The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency) and Darren Braude, MD, EMT-P (Medical Director of The Difficult Airway Course: EMS) how to overcome challenges related to bag-mask ventilation and facial hair. They offered these practical recommendations: A mustache, as long as […]

Updated January 3, 2022 This policy applies to the Emergency, Anesthesia and Critical Care versions of The Difficult Airway Course In-Person National Course Attendance Policy Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) will be holding in-person national courses which will be operated in compliance with State and CDC guidelines and with enhanced cleaning protocols. To ensure an […]

New policy applies to the Emergency, Anesthesia, and Critical Care versions of The Difficult Airway Course 2021 In-Person National Course Attendance Policy Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) will be holding in-person national courses in the Fall of 2021 – in San Diego (September), Denver (October), and Atlanta (November).  These courses will be operated in compliance […]

The latest Breathe Easy podcast from the American Thoracic Society (ATS) features an interview with Jarrod Mosier MD, National Course Director for The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care and Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Mosier discusses endotracheal intubation in critically ill adults with COVID-19 and offers insights […]

Airway Management Education Center, the creators of The Difficult Airway Course™, hosted the ninth annual “Airway Article of the Year” award show as a live webinar on December 17, 2020.  Webinar host, Calvin Brown III, MD presented three articles as finalists.  The nominees were selected from among all the articles covered during the Airway Management […]

The Difficult Airway Course: Virtual 2020 welcomed over 250 attendees for three dynamic days of airway education in October.  The attendees hailed from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Guam, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Thailand, UAE, UK, and the USA.  This geographically diverse group also represented multiple specialties, including anesthesiology, emergency medicine, critical […]

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 […]