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Emergency Airway Management Course |
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Comments from Past Participants in the Practical Emergency Airway Management
Course:
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"Your course is simply the best CME course out there. When it comes to intubation,
learning how to do it right sure beats trying to figure it out on my own over and
over again. Your course gave me the knowledge and confidence I need in dealing with
difficult airways."
"It taught me techniques I had not appreciated in 20 years of anesthesia practice.
By far the best [airway course]. Dr. Levitan is a wonderful and dynamic speaker
as well as other faculty members. Extremely useful, practical, and well organized.
A great educational experience which I'll share with my residents and students."
"This course should be mandatory for all EM residents. Keep up the excellent work!"
"This will change every intubation I do, supervise, or teach for the rest of my
career."
"The ability to see human anatomy is completely invaluable to the learning experience.
Great faculty."
"Thanks. Our residents and patients will benefit immeasurably."
"Your course was excellent. It was the most useful education time I have spent in
years. I am recommending your course to all my fellow ED physicians."
"I attended the airway course in February and wanted to tell you what a great experience
I thought it was. It definitely helped to boost my level of confidence and comfort
when dealing with difficult airways. I have encouraged all members of my group to
attend the conference."
"It was about 1 am on a busy Friday night, about a week after I took your course.
The ED was packed- when I was paged to the ICU to intubate an EXTREMELY belligerent
270 pound 36 year old male- with a short bull neck and no chin - who was s/p craniotomy
for resection of a brain tumor and needed to be taken down to manage his likely
rising ICP. I was the only doc in the hospital. There was no backup. And the intubation
went so smoothly thanks to what you taught me that the next few times I saw those
ICU nurses, they told me they were always relieved when they knew I was the one
in house. Thanks for the new skills and for helping to build my confidence."
“I enjoyed the course enormously. To think that after 7 years of residency (4 surgery
and 3 ER) and 6 years as an attending…To come across something that changes my practice
in a very basic way is amazing. I truly believe that the airway course should be
a required part of all residency training. Since the course I have had 3 difficult
intubations in heavy patients with short stature and initial epiglottis only views.
Using a combination of optimal ear to sternal notch positioning and ELM they have
all gone smoothly on single attempts…As the managing partner I am having the practice
send all new hires to the course and look forward to personally taking it again
just to stay solid and fresh.”
"Thanks again for a great course. First hour I was back at work I had to intubate
an older gentleman with an immobile neck, but it was so easy. The larynx looked
as big as a barn and the cords like pillars to a temple--could've driven a truck
through them. Your emphasis on anatomy served me well."
"After your course that I attended in Baltimore, I was so impressed that I purchased
the set of 3 videos, and they now will be a core teaching tool in all of our resident
anesthesia rotations (PG1 general anesthesia rotation, PG2 trauma anesthesia, and
PG3 pediatric anesthesia). In addition, I very strongly recommended to all of our
faculty and soon-to-be graduates that they too should take your course. After having
taken (and even taught in) some of the other airway courses out there, I can honestly
say that yours is the best!"
"I used head elevation to assist one of my residents on an anterior airway. It made
the difference. I routinely make bimanual intubation my technique of choice and
encourage it with the residents. I also have since participated in an open cric
with a resident on a patient with a bleeding laryngeal tumor and airway issues.
Thanks to your course my level of comfort was quite high despite the circumstances.
In addition, I routinely use your parachute analogy for RSI. Your course rocks!"
"The best EM / CME course I've ever had in 15 years. The ability in this to formally
learn directed laryngoscopy course in a realistic way is unique for EM physicians
and far surpasses standard mannequin teaching."
"Thank you very much for a great course. I learned more in two days with you than
during a residency. I'm not exaggerating. I hope your residents auditing the course
learned as much as we did. I would have loved to have had this experience at their
time in training."
"The course was excellent and I will recommend it to my colleagues."
"Great course. Best continuing education I've ever done. I will continue to pass
on the good word to my associates."
"Thank you for such a great airway management course. Few CME courses have ever
changed my practice of medicine. Yours is an exception as I will indefinitely incorporate
the techniques I have learned from you in my management of patients' airways. I
will recommend your course to my colleagues unconditionally."
"The cadavers offer a great opportunity to visualize and explore the laryngeal inlet.
Thank you very much. Great course!"
"I think this course was excellent and am recommending it to the residents/attendings
in my program. In fact, (my colleague) and I have intubated several patients in
the ED since the course and found ELM to be extremely useful and our confidence
in intubation has literally skyrocketed since the course."
"The airway course was very informative and in tune with what is important in managing
the ER airway. I would definitely recommend it to others. Since returning to work
I have had two potentially difficult airways (each about 300 lbs and one with an
INR of 9) and using the skills I learned from your class I was able to intubate
without difficulty."
"Excellent. Cadaver model is unequaled and I will recommend the course to
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