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Volume 3, No. 2, January 15, 2005
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SLAM Dallas 2005

Emergency Airway Provider Course

2-Day Human Airway Cadaver Lab,

AirMan Advanced Airway Management Workshop &

Porcine Cricothyrtomy Lab

Visit ITACCS

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This Program Includes the SLAM Emergency Airway Program Provider Card

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Michael Frass, M.D.
Combitube Inventor
University of Vienna, Austria
Special Guest Lecturer

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Craig Troop, M.D.
Troop Elevation Pillow Inventor
Plano, Texas
Guest Lecturer

 

 

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• A Host of international manufacturers & distributors will be exhibiting on Friday and Saturday.
• See the latest equipment and products available for airway management.

Session One is now open for registration

Lectures: April 15, 2005 - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Hands-on: April 16, 2005 - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Session 2 will open when session one is full.

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SLAM Dallas 2005

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SLAM Dallas 2005
April 15 - 17, 2005
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 Location of Conference

Parker College
2500 Walnut Hill Lane
Dallas, TX 75229

A Printable Registration Form is Contained at the Bottom of this Email

Registration

Register for this course at http://www.airwayeducation.com/Courses/view_CourseList.asp

Methods of Registration include:

Online Registration Simplest and Most Secure (Check, Credit Card or Company Purchase Order are All Available Online)

FAX Registration (Check, Credit Card, or Company Purchse Order - COPY, PASTE, PRINT & FAX FORM AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS EMAIL)

Mail-in Registration (Check, Credit Card, or Company Purchse Order - COPY, PASTE, PRINT & MAIL  FORM AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS EMAIL )

If you are an individual and want to register online and use a check you may select the company purchase order option when registering.  Your check must arrive shortly after registration in order to hold your seat.

  If you have any problems registering online please contact the course coordinator or click here for a registration form:

Jim Rich

Mobile - 214-232-7871

FAX - 972-463-4704

Email - slamquestion@gmail.com

Explanation of Sessions 1, 2 and 3

In order to accommodate more attendees this course is being presented in 3 sessions:

Session One:

Day One Lectures:   April 15, 2005 – 12 Noon to 6 p.m.
Day Two Hands-On:  April 16, 2005 – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.   April 15, 2005 - 12 Noon to 6 p.m.
Day Two Hands-On:
April 16, 2005 – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Session Two: Will not open for registration until session one is full

Day One Hands-On: April 15, 2005 – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Day Two Lectures:   April 16, 2005 – 12 Noon to 6 p.m.

Session Three: Will not open for registration until session two is full

Day One Lectures:     April 16, 2005 - 12 Noon to 6 p.m.
Day two Hands-On:  April 17, 2005 – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

More On Information Presented @ SLAM

Þ       No matter where you practice airway management (field, anesthesia, emergency medicine, other) you will be satisfied with the content.

Þ       Certificate of Attendance: up to 15 hours of CE/CME is awarded A SLAM Airway Provider Card is awarded that is good for 2 years.

Þ       A SLAM Bag with bougie introducer and other valuable information on airway management is provided (very practical).

Þ       CE and CME will be provided by

o         Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association (14 hours),

o         CECBEMS (15 hours),

o         Texas Dept of Health (15 hours),

o         International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society (ITACCS) (15 hours) and

o         AANA (15 hours).

Þ       Please call or email if you have further questions: Jim Rich 972-463-0845 Email - slamquestion@gmail.com FAX 972-463-4704.

This course includes lecture, training using human cadavers, porcine cricothyrotomy lab using pig laryngeal-tracheal segments, laerdal AirMan computerized airway simulators and intubation trainers.

Þ       Lectures include: -

Þ       SLAM Emergency Airway Flowchart –

o         1) A - Z management of the Human Airway –

o         2) airway technique selection criteria – 3) Airway Assessment –

o         3) Rapid Sequence Induction –

o         4) Rescuing and overcoming difficult/failed intubation: Special techniques for: - patients with c-spine precautions - patients who are morbidly obese - other patients who require the neutral head position - Head Elevated Larynogscopy Position (HELP: Troop Elevation Pillow) - External Laryngeal Manipulation (ELM) - Backward-Upward-Rightward-Pressure (BURP) - Bougie assisted intubation –

o         5) Evidence-based confirmation of tracheal intubation and monitoring of lung ventilation. –

o         6) Criteria for Rescue Ventilation –

o          7) Cricothyrotomy Options –

Þ       Hands-on instruction using:

Þ       Human cadavers for the human airway cadaver lab –

Þ       State of the art airway simulators (AirMan or SimMan) –

Þ       Standard intubation training heads –

Þ       Pig laryngeal-tracheal segments for the porcine cricothyrotomy lab –

Þ       Covered content for the hands-on will include: -

Þ       1) Rescue ventilation station (Combitube and Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA)) (LMA-Classic & LMA-Unique) –

Þ       2) Primary ventilation station –

Þ       3) Difficult intubation station - Array of laryngoscopes - Levering laryngoscope (McCoy) - Intubating laryngeal mask airway (ILMA or Fastrach) - Rigid fiberoptic intubation –

Þ       4) Flexible fiberoptic intubation (if available) –

Þ       5) Glide Scope Facilitated Intubation - Shikani Optical Stylet facilitated intubation –

Þ       6) Special techniques for: -

o         patients with difficult airways

o         patients with c-spine precautions –

o         patients who are morbidly obese –

o         other patients who require the neutral head position –

o         Head Elevated Larynogscopy Position (HELP: Troop Elevation Pillow) –

o         External Laryngeal Manipulation (ELM) –

o         Backward-Upward-Rightward-Pressure (BURP) - Bougie assisted intubation –

o         Retrograde Intubation Technique

Þ       You cannot beat this course for the price, content and exposure you will receive about management of the emergency airway.

The SLAM Emergency Airway Flowchart 

James Rich, the founder of SLAM^® also developed the SLAM Emergency Airway Flowchart which is an effective difficult airway algorithm that provides direction on how to approach and manage the emergency airway.  The flowchart was recently published in the AANA Journal:  Rich J, Mason A, Ramsay M. The SLAM Emergency Airway Flowchart: A New Guide for Advanced Airway Practitioners. AANA J 2004:72;431-439.  It will soon be accessible at www.pubmed.com.

It enables practitioners to make crucial decisions when time is in short supply.

While other airway flowcharts exist, this Flowchart is unique in its logical and consistent emphasis on:

1. Clear indications for advanced airway management
2. Airway Evaluation & Assessment 
3. Oxygenation and ventilation
4. Not persevering with a failed intubation or ventilation techniques
5. Modifying your technique after a failed intubation
6. Use of simple techniques to overcome failed intubation
7. Proceeding with rescue ventilation (Combitube or LMA) after 3 or more failed intubation attempts
8. Always confirming intubation and moinitoring ventilation with an evidence-based method

The Flowchart consists of 5 Airway Management Pathways:

1. Primary Ventilation Pathway
2. RSI Pathway
3. Difficult Intubation Pathway
4. Rescue Ventilation Pathway
5. Cricothyrotomy Pathway

It provides the basis for instruction. 

Lectures and hands-on instruction at all SLAM workshops are designed to reinforce the concepts introduced in the flowchart.

Topics Covered at the Course

1. We use human cadavers,  Laerdal AirMan Airway Simulators and other excellent intubation trainers at this conference.
2. However, surgical airway management is taught using porcine laryngeal-tracheal segments.
3. Additionally, we use the Laerdal AirMan Simulators for the Emergency Airway Simulation Station.

Topics covered in this workshop during either lecture or hands-on sessions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Beck Airway Airflow Monitor
• Chou Airway
• Cobra PLA
• Combitube,
• Cricothyrotomy Techniques
• Endotrol Endotracheal Tube
• Gum Elastic Bougie
• Howland-Lock
• King LT
• Laryngeal Mask Airway
• Laryngoscope blades of various types
• LMA-Fastrach (Intubating LMA)
• Levering (McCoy)Larynogscope
• Nasal Pharyngeal Airway
• Oro-pharyngeal Airway
• Parker Endotracheal Tube
• Retrograde Intubation
• Shikani Seeing Stylet
• Upsher Laryngoscope
• Cricothyrotomy Station using pig laryngeal-tracheal segments provides instruction in trans-tracheal jet ventilation, percutaneous dilational cricothyrotomy and surgical cricothyrotomy.
• Rescue Ventilation Station teaches how to provide rescue ventilation for a crash airway patient as well as for patients experiencing a critical airway event, using either the Combitube or Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA Unique, LMA Classic or LMA Proseal)
• Flexible Fiberoptic Intubation Station (with manufacturer’s support): Pediatric and Adult
• Rigid fiberoptic laryngosocpy using the Glide Scope, Upsher Scope and Shikani Optical Stylet
• Difficult Intubation Station teaches:
  • Advanced laryngoscopy techniques
  • Basic laryngoscopy techniques
• Blind Nasal Intubation using the Beck Airway Airflow Monitor (BAAM) for apneic and spontaneously breathing victims
• Confirmation of tracheal intubation
• Monitoring of lung ventilation
• Eschmann Introducer (gum elastic bougie)
• External Laryngeal Manipulation
• Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA-Fastrach)
• Intubation rescue techniques
• Retrograde Intubation
• Safe ET Tube Exchange Techniques
• Head-elevated Laryngoscopy Position (HELP)
• Troop Elevation Pillow
• Variety of laryngoscope blades

Travel, Lodging & Daily Transportation

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Travel is the responsibility of each attendee. Neither TeamSLAM nor ITACCS are responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses for a cancelled conference. Dallas is located in North Central Texas. It is serviced by interstate highways:  I-20, I-30 and I-35E. It is in close proximity to Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport as well as Dallas Love Field. Shuttle service and car rental is available through various companies at each airport.

Lodging
Lodging is the responsibility of each attendee. Neither TeamSLAM nor ITACCS is responsible for reimbursement of hotel fees for a cancelled conference. Many hotels are located near the conference site. Hotel rates run from $57 to $99 per night. Transportation to and from the airport is available from airport shuttles, hotel shuttles, taxis, rental cars.

The Drury Inn
2421 Walnut Hill Ln.
Dallas, TX 75229
972-484-3330

Parker College Rate $56.99 for a double room with two double beds.

Hampton Inn
11069 Composite Drive
Dallas, TX 75229
972-484-6557

Weekend Rate is $62 for a double room with two double beds.

Daily Transportation to and from Conference
The distance between the above mentioned hotels and Parker College is less than ½ mile. Car pooling using rental cars or taxis is advantageous. Taxi fares between conference hotels and Parker College is very reasonable.

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If you are paying by check or company purchase order and plan to mail this form with payment – you should also fax it now in order to reserve your seat.  Seating is on a first registered basis and is strictly  limited.  Personal check must arrive within 5 business days of our receipt of this form.  Company purchase order check must arrive within 30 days or prior to the conference (which ever time is shorter).You should also register online if possible and choose the check/purchase order option.

Ending Date & Time of Session One  is April 16, 2005 @ 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.