Anaesthesiologists from the Whole World
Anaesthesiologists from the Capital Region of Denmark
Problems with managing the airways are primary causes of serious complications and death in relation to anaesthesia. The course will provide you with tools that will prevent this from happening to your patients.
Department of Anaesthesiology
Centre of Head and Orthopaedics
Rigshospitalet
Inge Lehmanns Vej 6,
2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
Telephone: +45 3545 7805
Web: www.rigshospitalet.dk
Dr Imran Ahmad FRCA
Consultant Anaesthetist
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK
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PD Dr. med. Martin Petzoldt, MD, FEAMS
Consultant Anaesthetist
University Medical Centre
Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany
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Michael Seltz Kristensen MD -
- The course is non-sponsored and not-for-profit.
- In 2025 participation costs 12.200 DKK (1635 EUR)
- (Including all meals and an instructor-to-participant-ratio of 1-to-1)
The 2025 course is fully booked.
Click here if you want to be notified when you can apply for Airway Management for Anesthesiologists 2026.
- The course language is English.
- All participants are asked to upload an airway-management patient-case for the discussion and workshop.
- Changes in the program may occur
Core Topics in Airway Management
- 3rd edition
Edited by Tim Cook, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK and Michael Seltz Kristensen, Rigshospitalet
Airwaymanagement for Anaesthesiologists 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark 27/11/2025 - 28/11/2025, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 12.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s).
Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications.
Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
- Airway techniques and equipment– what is new and what do I really need?
- Awake intubation – making it a pleasant experience!
- Biphasic Cuirass Ventilation (BCV)
- Fiberoptic intubation made easy!
- Frontline - what next?
- ECMO for emergent airway management
- The neuro-traumatized: Time is brain
- Have a plan!
- Prehospital management
- Preoperative evaluation of the airway made useful
- The "cannot-intubate-cannot-ventilate"– situation. Recognition. Management choices.
- The paediatric airway
- How to maintain oxygenation in the difficult and combative patient
- Ultrasound and the airway
- The Bloody Bleeding airway
- Chricothyrotomy
- Biphasic Cuirass Ventilation (BCV)
- Fiberoptic airway management
- Hands on ultrasonography in airway management
- On full-scale simulators, SimMan: Managing the "cannot-intubate-cannot-ventilate"-and the "cannot-intubate-can-ventilate" situation and other
- Retrograde intubation
- Miscellaneous videolaryngoscopes
- High flow nasal oxygen HFNO
- Infrared-guided flexible optical intubation
- Flow controlled ventilation via 2.4 mm tubes for adults
- The paediatric airway
As part of the workshop, participants will present and discuss own airway cases.