ACLS & Airway Managment Hands On Workshop Houston, TX Oct. 9 & 10, 2010

[Randy Pigg]

This workshop will provide participants with American Heart Association ACLS® Certification and provide a full day of emergency airway management techniques. Course consists of didactic lectures, intensive imaging, discussion and hands -on workshop with the world's most realistic airway mannequins and patient simulators.

Audience: This course is appropriate for physicians, dentists, nurses and all allied health and dental professionals who are involved in the administration of sedation & analgesia.

Objectives: At the conclusion of this program , participants should be able to:

1. Recognize and initiate early management of peri-arrest conditions that may result in cardiac arrest or complicate resuscitation outcome;

2. Manage cardiac or respiratory arrest until return of spontaneous circulation and respiration, termination of resuscitation or transfer of care;

3. Recognize other life threatening clinical situations and provide effective initial care and transfer to reduce disability and death;

4. Describe & demonstrate a variety of techniques for maintaining oxygenation;

5. Recognition and anticipation of difficult airways

Devices: Mask ventilation, LMA and King LT rescue Ventilation, AirTraq Opitical Laryngoscope

Direct Laryngoscopy, Malleable Stylets, and Bougies (tube introducers)

Faculty:American Heart Association® Certified ACLS Instructors & Richard Levitan, MD

About: Dr. Levitan has published approximately 30 peer-reviewed articles on emergency airway management and is the author of 2 textbooks. He serves on the Editorial Board of Annals of Emergency Medicine, and is a reviewer for numerous emergency medicine and anesthesia journals. He has been a design consultant and investigator for many airway device manufacturers. He has given approximately 350 lectures on airway management worldwide, and for almost ten years has run a monthly hands-on cadaver-based airway workshop. He is currently an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

Date:October 9 & 10, 2010 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. Breakfast & lunch provided.

Location: Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport 9100 Gulf Freeway Houston, TX 77017

Fees: $995.00 Physicians & Dentists $ 475.00 Nurses & Auxiliary staff

Seating is limited, pre-registration is required.

Registration can be completed online by clicking here

Or by phone at 888-581-4448 x 2

For more information on this course or other services we offer please visit www.SedationConsulting.com