Programme 2026

All lectures take place in Auditorium 93, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen. The hands-on workshop on Thursday evening is held at the ENT outpatient clinic, Entrance 7, 4th and 5th floor.

Thursday 19 November 2026

Time	Session
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 and Camilla Strøm
10.15 - 10.40	Airway guidelines in action 10 min: Canadian Guidelines, the essence – Matteo Parotto 10 min: DAS guidelines, the essence – Kariem El-Boghdadly 5 min: What should the clinician do? – Kariem El-Boghdadly and Matteo Parotto
10.40 - 10.50	Identification of the cricothyroid membrane with ultrasound Robin Lin-Lohse
10.50 - 11.05	Risk of aspiration – and gastric ultrasound in anaesthesia Kariem El-Boghdadly
11.05 - 11.20	Break
11.20 - 12.00	Aspects of awake airway management and intubation 5 min: Wire your mind – Michael Seltz Kristensen 15 min: Topical anaesthesia and sedation – Kariem El-Boghdadly 10 min: Positioning and tips for mastering the flexible scope – Thomas Bøllingtoft Knudsen 10 min: Safe oxygenation through the flexible scope – Alexandre Garioud
12.00 - 12.15	Break
12.15 - 12.25	Failed video laryngoscopy Camilla Strøm and Michael Seltz Kristensen
12.25 - 13.00	Advanced airway management with simple equipment 15 min: Tube-Tip-In-Mouth / Tube-Tip-In-Pharynx – Michael Seltz Kristensen and Sandra Ellefsen 12 min: Evacu8 – Matteo Parotto 8 min: Retrograde intubation – Rasmus Hesselfeldt
13.00 - 14.05	Lunch at Restaurant Panza, Blegdamsvej 70
14.10 - 14.25	Advanced airway management by combining techniques Camilla Strøm and Rasmus Hesselfeldt
14.25 - 14.50	Front of neck airway access Rasmus Winkel and Jacob Melchiors
14.50 - 15.00	Extrathoracic, “cuirass”, ventilation Jakob Friis Schmidt
15.00 - 15.15	Break
15.15 - 15.50	Paediatric airway management Morten Bøttger
15.50 - 16.15	Walk to the workshop ENT outpatient clinic, Entrance 7, 4th and 5th floor, section 7046/7056
16.15 - 16.30	Introduction to the workshop 4th floor, section 7046, meeting room
16.30 - 20.40	Hands-on workshop in small group rotations All lecturers participate.
20.40 - 23.00	Dinner at Restaurant BÆST, Guldbergsgade 29, 2200 København N After a refreshing 15-minute walk we continue the discussion of our cases over a delightful dinner. The day ends at the restaurant – from there you can walk to central Copenhagen.

Friday 20 November 2026

Time	Session
08.40 - 09.00	Coffee, espresso and croissants
09.00 - 10.15	Our own airway cases – what can we all learn? Camilla Strøm, Michael Friis Tvede, Rasmus Hesselfeldt, Kariem El-Boghdadly, Matteo Parotto, Michael Seltz Kristensen and ALL
10.15 - 10.30	Break
10.30 - 10.55	The physiologically difficult airway and peri-oxygenation Søren Steemann Rudolph, Jonathan White and Matteo Parotto
10.55 - 11.05	Neuromuscular blocking agents – news Matias Vested
11.05 - 11.25	Safe extubation Matteo Parotto
11.25 - 11.40	Break
11.40 - 11.55	Airway management in the neuro-/traumatised. What’s different? Christine Sølling
11.55 - 12.15	Managing the bloody bleeding airway Søren Steemann Rudolph
12.15 - 12.30	Prehospital airway management Michael Friis Tvede
12.30 - 13.35	Lunch at Restaurant Panza
13.40 - 14.40	Our own airway cases – what can we all learn? Camilla Strøm, Michael Friis Tvede, Rasmus Hesselfeldt, Kariem El-Boghdadly, Matteo Parotto, Michael Seltz Kristensen and ALL
14.40 - 14.55	Break
14.55 - 15.05	ECMO – for emergency airway management Karin Egnell
15.05 - 15.40	In the pipeline Camilla Strøm, Kariem El-Boghdadly, Matteo Parotto and Michael Seltz Kristensen
15.40 - 16.00	Summary and diploma Faculty, Michael Seltz Kristensen, Rasmus Hesselfeldt and Camilla Strøm

The course is granted 12.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s) by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®).