Airway Management
Overview
Airway Management skills are critical in saving the life of victim who experience hypoxia due to airway obstruction. Improving skills to identify a compromised airway an maintaining airway patency can help bring down death rates. The aim of this module is to train nurses on various challenging airway management techniques with the purpose of maintaining and restoring a safe and effective pathway for oxygenation and ventilation
- Time Duration : 6 hrs
- Number of Participants : 15
- Identify potential causes of airway obstruction
- Discuss the goal of airway management
- Demonstrate different airway assessment techniques
- Explain different oxygen delivery methods
- Discuss various airway adjuncts used in resuscitation
- List out the indications and contraindications of each airway adjunct
- Demonstrate different airway management skills used in resuscitation
- Multimedia audio visual aids
- Various assessment tools
- handouts
- Practice session on task trainer
- Demonstration on high fidelity manikins
- Simulation based cinical scenarios
- Knowledge and skill assessment
