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Advanced Airway Management Workshop

Simulation-driven advanced airway training for healthcare professionals managing difficult, failed, and high-risk airway emergencies.

Description

Advanced airway emergencies demand clinical skill, preparation, equipment familiarity, decision-making, and calm execution under pressure. When oxygenation is failing, hesitation becomes dangerous.

The Advanced Airway Management Workshop by AFAI is designed for doctors, anaesthesiology residents, emergency physicians, ICU teams, critical care providers, airway teams, and acute care clinicians who are expected to manage high-risk airway scenarios.

This workshop moves beyond basic airway support and focuses on difficult airway recognition, advanced airway devices, airway planning, failed airway response, and simulation-based crisis management.

Why This Program Matters

The dangerous airway is rarely dangerous only because of anatomy. It becomes dangerous when preparation is poor, backup plans are unclear, equipment is unfamiliar, team communication breaks down, or escalation is delayed.

Advanced airway training helps clinicians develop structured thinking, device familiarity, procedural confidence, and team-based response during high-stakes airway events.

What Participants Will Learn

By the end of the workshop, participants will be trained to:

  1. Assess airway difficulty and identify risk factors early.

  2. Plan airway management using structured airway strategies.

  3. Understand indications and limitations of advanced airway devices.

  4. Use supraglottic airway devices appropriately.

  5. Practise video laryngoscopy and airway visualisation principles, where equipment is available.

  6. Understand rapid sequence airway management principles as applicable to institutional scope.

  7. Recognise failed airway situations and respond systematically.

  8. Understand emergency front-of-neck access principles and escalation pathways.

  9. Improve team communication during airway crises.

Core Training Areas

Difficult Airway Assessment

Recognition of anatomical, physiological, and situational airway difficulty.

Airway Planning

Preparation, preoxygenation, positioning, equipment readiness, backup plans, and role allocation.

Supraglottic Airway Devices

Indications, insertion principles, confirmation, troubleshooting, and limitations.

Video Laryngoscopy

Practical orientation to airway visualisation, technique, ergonomics, and common pitfalls, based on equipment availability.

Rapid Sequence Airway Management

​Conceptual and practical approach to high-risk emergency airway management within institutional protocols and participant scope.

Failed Airway Response

Recognition of failed oxygenation or failed intubation pathways, rescue ventilation, escalation, and team coordination.

Emergency Front-of-Neck Access

Conceptual understanding, decision triggers, equipment awareness, and emergency pathway orientation for cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate situations.

Training Methodology

The workshop may include:

  • Advanced airway concept teaching

  • Device demonstrations

  • Hands-on airway stations

  • Manikin-based airway practice

  • Difficult airway scenarios

  • Failed airway simulations

  • Team-based drills

  • Faculty-led debriefing

  • Optional skill checklist and assessment

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is suitable for:

  • Anaesthesiology residents

  • Emergency medicine residents

  • ICU doctors

  • Critical care teams

  • Senior RMOs

  • Airway response teams

  • OT and emergency department clinicians

  • Healthcare professionals involved in advanced airway management

Institutional Value

For hospitals and medical colleges, this workshop supports:

  • Airway crisis preparedness

  • Advanced emergency response capability

  • Reduced device unfamiliarity

  • Better team coordination during airway emergencies

  • Anaesthesia, ICU, emergency, and OT skill strengthening

  • Simulation-based competency development

Program Format

Mode: Hands-on and simulation-based workshop
Audience: Doctors and acute care professionals
Batch type: Institutional batch or scheduled workshop
Certification: AFAI certificate of participation or completion as applicable
Location: AFAI training venue or on-site institutional training as feasible

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