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In collaboration with The Airway App and Laura Duggan

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How do I get to attend the course?

To maintain the extremely high lecturer-to-participant ratio we are forced to limit the number of participants. 

Therefore, not all applicants will get the opportunity to attend the course  - at least not this time.

In order to continuously improve the course, we appreciate motivation, diverse background and experience. 

Diversity is key, so we welcome applications from both novices and experts in airway management.

Here is how to do:

Submit your application as soon as possible

Wait patiently for an answer until April 15th 2024

If your application is accepted, you will receive further instructions (payment instructions, promo code for 20% discount on Core Topics in Airway Management and more).

If your application is NOT accepted in the first round, you will stay on the waiting list for possible later acceptance or receive information about coming courses.

Your place on the course is guaranteed only after you have received a confirmation of payment reception

Application

Infrared flashing light  (IRRIS) applied after failed attempts at videolaryngoscopy and failed flexible optical intubation:

Tube Tip In Pharynx (TTIP) – for awake flexible bronchoscope-guided oral intubation in patients with extremely restricted mouth-opening:

Airway lecture topics 

Managing the airway in the critically Ill 

Maintaining oxygenation throughout airway management

Using infrared light to find the trachea

Intubation via a supraglottic airway while maintaining ventilation

Managing the airway with simple means (Including retrograde intubation and Tube-Tip-In-pharynx ventilation)

Identifying the cricothyroid membrane  with ultrasonography

Managing the Bleeding upper airway

Managing the airway in a highly contagious (eg corona-virus infected) patient

Ultrasound-locating the cricothyroid membrane (Wendy Teoh)

Tube Tip In Pharynx (TTIP) ventilation (Jacob Stensballe)

Retrograde intubation on a larynx model (Michael Friis Tvede)

Mask ventilation reinvented! (Hans van Schuppen)

RED° The Bleeding Airway Man (Søren Rudolph and Michael Kristensen)

          How to intubate when you can’t see anything!

                    Dedicated (”SALAD”) suctioning

                    Flexible optical intubation via SGA

                    Retrograde intubation

                    Blinking Infrared light (IRRIS)

Dr. Adam Law is Professor of Anaesthesia at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He started medical practice with 6 years as a rural general practitioner. This was followed by a residency in Anaesthesia and subspecialty training in neuroanaesthesia at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He has worked in Halifax as a consultant anaesthetist ever since. Adam is co-director of both the US-based Difficult Airway Course and the Canadian AIME airway course and teaches in both courses on a regular basis. He also chaired the Canadian Airway Focus Group, which published expanded and updated Canadian airway management guidelines in 2013. When not at work, he enjoys spending time his family, hiking, running, skiing and playing tennis.   

Dr. Adam Law on PubMed (selected airway references) 

Dr. Ana M. López, MD, PhD, DESA is presently a Consultant Anesthetist at the Ambulatory Surgery Unit at Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona. As a board member of the Airway Management Section of the Catalan Society of Anesthesiology (SCARTD), she contributed to the development and update of local guidelines, and is involved in training and continuing education programs in safe airway management. Her research and academic interests are supraglottic airway devices, airway management data analysis, perioperative ultrasound, patient safety and education. She has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in these fields.

Dr. López on PubMed (selected airway references)

The deadline for uploading cases was October 27th, so unfortunately we will have to do without your contribution this time

FREE DOWNLOAD: The ultimate review on Ultrasonography and airway management 

FREE DOWNLOAD: The ultimate review on Ultrasonography and airway management 

Please press the PubMed logo or here for at list of selected papers from the people in our group.

Thursday, 27 November 2025, Auditorium 93  

09.15 - 09.55                Coffee, croissants and registration

10.00 - 10.15                Welcome and introduction: Airway management: what it is – and why should it be important?
                                                  Michael Seltz Kristensen, Camilla Strøm, Rasmus Hesselfeldt                               

 10.15 - 10.40                Airway guidelines in action including the newest updates from DAS
                                                  Imran Ahmad

10.40 - 10.50                High flow nasal oxygenation
                                                  Zofia Piozik                                

10.50 - 11.05                BREAK

11.05 - 11.20                Rapid sequence induction
                                                  Imran Ahmad

11.20 - 11.30                Muscle relaxants
                                                  Matias Vested

11.35 - 11.55                Personalized videolaryngoscopy – an emerging concept
                                                  Martin Petzoldt

11.55 - 12.10                BREAK

12.10 - 12.30                Flexible scope intubation
                                                  Thomas Bøllingtoft Knudsen

12.30 - 12.45                Securing the airway awake and how to make it a pleasant experience
                                                  Jeppe Thue Jensen

12.45 - 12.55                Advanced airway management with simple equipment
                                                  Jeppe Thue Jensen, Rasmus Hesselfeldt

12.55 - 14.00                LUNCH at Restaurant Panza, Blegdamsvej 70

14.00 - 14.20                Advanced airway management by combining techniques
                                                  Camilla Strøm, Rasmus Hesselfeldt

 14.20 - 14.45                Front of neck airway access
                                                  Rasmus Winkel and Jacob Melchiors

14.45 – 15:00               Extrathoracic, “cuirass”, ventilation
                                                  Jakob Friis Schmidt 

15:00 - 15.15                BREAK

15.15 - 15.50                Paediatric airway management
                                                  Morten Bøttger

15.50 - 16.00                Ultrasonographic Identification of the airway in the neck
                                                  Robin Lin Lohse

After a little walk: Workshop, at the ENT-outpatient clinic, Entrance 7, 4^th and 5^th floor, section 7046/7056

16.15 - 16.30                Introduction to the workshop (4^th floor section 7046, meeting room)

16.30 - 20.40                Hands-on workshop in small group rotations
                                                  All lecturers participate

20.40 - 23.00                After a refreshing 15 minute walk to the splendid restaurant BÆST, Guldbergsgade 29, 2200 København, we will continue the discussion of our cases while we enjoy a delightful dinner. We will end the day at the restaurant from where you can walk to central Copenhagen. 

Friday, 28 November 2025, Auditorium 93

08.40 - 09.00                Coffee, espresso and croissants are served

09.00 - 10.15                Our own airway cases - What can we all learn?
                                                  Michael Seltz Kristensen, Michael Friis Tvede, Rasmus Hesselfeldt,
                                                  Camilla Strøm, Imran Ahmad, Martin Petzholdt and ALL

10.15 - 10.35                BREAK

10.35 - 10.55                Airway classification in the era of digitalization
                                                  Martin Petzoldt

 10.55 - 11.15                The physiologically difficult airway and peri-oxygenation
                                                  Søren Steemann Rudolph

11.15 - 11.35                BREAK

11.35 - 11.55                From crisis to control – human factors, cognitive load and training
                                                  Imran Ahmad

11.55 - 12.20                Managing the bloody bleeding airway
                                                  Søren Steemann Rudolph

12.20 - 13.30                LUNCH at Panza

13.30 - 14.30                Our own Airway cases - What can we all learn?
                                                  Michael Seltz Kristensen, Michael Friis Tvede, Rasmus Hesselfeldt,
                                                  Camilla Strøm, Imran Ahmad, Martin Petzholdt and ALL

 14.30 - 14.45               BREAK

14.45 - 15.05                Airway management in the neuro-/-traumatised. What’s different?
                                                  Karen-Lise Welling

15.05 - 15.20                ECMO – for emergency airway management
                                                  Karin Birgitta Egnell

15.20 - 15.40                Prehospital airway pitfalls
                                                  Dan Lou Isbye

15.40 - 16.00                Summary and diploma
                                                  Faculty, Michael Seltz Kristensen, Rasmus Hesselfeldt, Camilla Strøm