This Refresher Course describes how airway management is perhaps the skill set that best defines our specialty; yet when difficulties are encountered, we often persist with ineffective strategies. When serious injuries or complications are averted, we risk becoming complacent, reinforcing suboptimal behavior; when they are not averted, the outcomes are often disastrous, damaging the lives of patients and their families and significantly impacting those who were entrusted with their care. Near misses are not uncommon, but when our patients escape injury, we may fail to learn from these situations. It behooves us to pay attention and become better prepared. Multiple ineffective interventions waste time, risk injury, and may convert a failed intubation into inability to oxygenate a patient.
CME Credit: 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Creditâ„¢
Activity Release Date:
10/25/2016
Activity Expiration Date:
10/24/2019