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ForwardDifficult Airway Course 07/22/2025
This training will ensure all staff are proficient in trauma care, equipment use, and critical decision-making in both trauma and transport environments. Participants will gain skills for safe operations in critical care flight settings, effective communication, and patient triage. Additionally, staff will be trained to manage advanced or difficult airways, including alternatives to intubation, ensuring readiness for high-pressure situations.
Learning Objectives
Learning Objective 1: Assess for signs of difficult pediatric airways. Participants will apply strategies for effective BVM and adjunct airway use to maintain pediatric airway.
Learning Objective 2: Assess need for advanced airway management and apply skills with advanced equipment. Participants will be competent to use advanced airway equipment when working with pediatric patients.
Learning Objective 3: Assess need for needle cricothyrotomy and demonstrate proper technique to manage a pediatric airway using cricothyrotomy. Participants will demonstrate the proper procedure and use jet insufflation to deliver O2 to lungs.
Additional Information
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Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Children’s National Hospital. Children’s National Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Children’s National Hospital Accreditation Provider# 4008362
Financial and In-Kind Commercial Support
No financial nor in-kind commercial support was received for these education activities.
Available Credit
- 6.00 ANCCChildren’s National Hospital will provide 6.00 Nursing Contact Hours for this Live activity.
- 6.00 ParticipationSuccessful completion of this continuing education activity.