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Comprehensive Otolaryngology

Emergency Airway Management for Medical Students: Oto Chautauqua LIVE!

Sunday, October 1, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM East Coast USA Time
Location: Broadway E

    Lead Instructor(s)

  • Michele M. Carr, DDS MD PhD

    Professor
    Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
    Williamsville, NY, United States

    • Instructors(s)

  • Adam R. Szymanowski, MD

    Assistant Professor
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX, United States

  • Vijay A. Patel, MD

    Associate Physician
    University of California San Diego
    San Diego, CA, United States

  • Angela T. Cao, MD

    Fellow
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Cincinnati, OH, United States

Disclosure(s):
Michele M. Carr, DDS MD PhD: No relevant relationships to disclose.
Vijay A. Patel, MD: No relevant relationships to disclose.
Angela Cao, MD: No relevant relationships to disclose.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This is a hands-on session designed for medical students with a focus on emergency airway management. Students will have the opportunity to rotate through stations and perform procedures on a model. Key topics covered include techniques for bag masking, jaw thrust in adults and children, airway adjuncts (oral and nasal airways, laryngeal mask) and intubation techniques. In the second station, surgical approaches to emergent airway management will include reviewing the indications and approach to cricothyroidotomy and tracheotomy. The final station will include selection and management of tracheostomy tubes and laryngectomee tubes. Students will learn how to size, change, and maintain tracheostomy tubes as well as how to address common problems associated with tracheotomy tubes including related emergencies.

This session will have a flipped classroom format with an online package of background information that will need to be reviewed prior to the activity. Participants will be sent the link before the course.

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 1: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to demonstrate how to control an airway (jaw thrust, bag masking), place airway adjuncts (oral/nasal airway, laryngeal mask airway), and perform oral intubation.

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 2: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to demonstrate how to perform an emergency cricothyroidotomy and tracheotomy.

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 3: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to name the components of a tracheostomy tube, demonstrate how to maintain a tracheostomy tube and how to approach tracheostomy tube related airway emergencies.

BACKGROUND STATEMENT: 400 medical students attended the AAO AM in 2022. There were no didactic sessions dedicated to this group. Demonstrating emergency airway management is ideal for simulation as these situations are of high acuity and occur rarely. Attendees will be better prepared for an acute airway emergency.