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Airway Management for Anaesthesiologists 2026

Faculty:
Anaesthesiologists, emergency-, intensive-care and pre-hospital physicians and ORL-surgeons with expertise in airway management.
Target group:

Anaesthesiologists from the Whole World
Anaesthesiologists from the Capital Region of Denmark

Time:
Thursday November 19th 2025 at 09:55 until Friday November 20th at 16:00
Place:
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Background:

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.

Arranged by:

Department of Anaesthesiology
Centre of Head and Orthopaedics
Rigshospitalet
Inge Lehmanns Vej 6,
2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

Telephone: +45 3545 7805
Web: www.rigshospitalet.dk

Special guest lecturers:

link Dr. Matteo Parotto (CAN)

Scientific head:

Michael Seltz Kristensen MD
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Price:
  • The course is non-sponsored and not-for-profit.
  • Course fee: 1.764 EUR (13.180 DKK)
  • Included in the fee is:
Application:

The 2026 course is fully booked.

Fill out this form if you are interested in being notified when the application proces for the 2027 course is initiated.

Secretariat:

Ole Eldar Andersen
Administrative Officer
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Notice:
  • 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
Mandatory reading as preparation for the course:

Core Topics in Airway Management
- 3rd edition
Edited by Tim Cook, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK and Michael Seltz Kristensen, Rigshospitalet

eBook edition is included in the course fee.

Accreditation

TBA

Lecture Topics:
  • 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
Workshop Topics:
  • 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
Case discussion:

As part of the workshop, participants will present and discuss own airway cases.