About the Course
This immersive one-day cadaveric workshop provides attendees with invaluable hands-on practical experience, focusing specifically on the technical skills of airway management.
The course is designed and delivered by the team that developed the acclaimed Procedures Course and will be taught on specially prepared donor cadavers at the University of Melbourne’s Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience.
The procedures covered include:
- Direct & Videolaryngoscopy
- Hyperangulated laryngoscopy
- Supraglottic Airways
- Nasendoscopy & fibreoptic intubation
- Retrograde intubation
- Surgical airway
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
- Critical care physicians and senior advanced trainees (Emergency, Trauma, Intensive Care, Anaesthetics).
Core Faculty
Core Faculty
A/Prof Dr Chris Groombridge
Emergency and Trauma Physician, The Alfred Hospital
Chris has a particular interest in the prehospital management of trauma and has worked as a retrieval specialist with Sydney HEMS & CareFlight NSW, as well as London HEMS in the UK.
He is also a co-founding faculty member of Alfred's Trauma Resuscitation Workshop and Shock, Trauma and Resuscitation (S.T.A.R) Program.
Chris’ current research interests focus on optimising airway management outside of the operating theatre and has previously published work on preoxygenation for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) and prehospital RSI induction pharmacology. He has also completed his PhD on the human factors of resuscitation.
Core Faculty
Dr Amit Maini
Trauma Consultant, The Alfred Hospital
Amit is a trauma consultant and emergency physician at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and has a special interest in education especially as it relates to emergency airway management, and trauma reception within the ED.
Amit is also a former director of Emergency Medicine training with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and former Editor for EMRAP Australia - a global monthly emergency medicine audio program.
He is a founder and co-creator of the Emergency Trauma Management Course based in Melbourne Australia, as well as The Procedures Course (Australia, and Europe) and The Airway Course (Australia), teaching life saving techniques to critical care physicians.
