The Prehospital Emergency Airway Course (PEAC)
This two day comprehensive course is designed to give prehospital providers an evidence based approach to emergency airway management for critically ill patients including pediatric and special patient population. The course combines didactic with hands-on skills and scenario based learning to reinforce important teaching points.
Initial PEAC
This one-day evidence-based course is designed for all advanced level prehospital providers who manage airways in critically ill patients.
- This 8-hour section combines lectures with advanced skills and high-fidelity simulation.
- Topics include:
- How training and experience impact patient care
- The basics of the anatomically difficult airway
- Prehospital airway algorithms
- Alternative and back up techniques for airway management
- Video laryngoscope
- Surgical airways
- Bougie techniques
- Use of checklists and how to increase first pass success rates
- The importance of oxygenation
- Airway management in the critically ill patient
- Pharmacology update
Pediatric Airway
The pediatric PEAC builds on the initial PEAC course.
- This 4-hour section covers comprehensive pediatric airway management.
- Students will learn the following for pediatric airways:
- Physiologic and anatomic differences
- The difficult pediatric airway
- Pediatric SGA
- Pediatric video laryngoscopy
- Needle cricothyrotomy
- Foreign body airway obstruction
- Pharmacology update
- Scenario based learning
Special Populations
The special populations PEAC builds on the initial PEAC course.
- This 4-hour section covers airway management in special populations including: trauma, obese, pregnancy, reactive airway and more.
- Students will learn techniques for the following patient populations:
- Trauma
- Elevated ICP and neurologic emergencies
- Reactive airway
- Status seizure
- The pregnant patient
- The morbidly obese
- Massively soiled airways