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Course image Management of the Unanticipated Difficult Airway
Clinical Education - Medicine

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide clinicians with knowledge fundamental to safe airway management. This course is divided into the following 7 mini modules:

  1. Why Management Matters
  2. Equipment Essentials
  3. Overview of CAFG Recommendations
  4. Management of Failed Intubation
  5. Management of Failed Supraglottic Airway
  6. eFONA
  7. Introduction to Human Factors

Course Length: Approximately 2 hours

Learning Objectives: Following completion of this course, learners will be able to:

  1. Recognize an airway crisis scenario.
  2. Apply the “Canadian Airway Focus Group (CAFG) Guidelines”, as an example of a cognitive aid in airway crisis management and understand its role in patient management.
  3. Recognize appropriate equipment for use in “Cannot Ventilate, Cannot Oxygenate” clinical scenarios.
  4. Summarize equipment selection criteria based on patient characteristics and response to management.
  5. Recognize human factors principles essential for effective clinical care during time-critical airway management.

CME Credits: This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by Continuing Professional Development, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. You may claim a maximum of 2.0 hours (credits are automatically calculated). Each participant should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent participating in the educational program.

RCSPC Activity ID: 00016038

Course image Acute Care of Sexual Assault Survivors in the Emergency Department
Clinical Education - Medicine

AC SA

    This is a virtual learning module to help Physicians support the Acute Care of Sexual Assault Survivors in the Emergency Department. The purpose of this training module is to provide Emergency Department healthcare providers with training, and resources to support victims/survivors of sexual assault.

    Learning Objectives: 

    Following Completion of this module, learners will be able to:

  1. Describe the structure of Sexual Assault care in Ontario.
  2. Recognize the role of an Emergency Physician in the acute care of an adult sexual assault survivor.
  3. Summarize the components of the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) and your role in optimizing evidence collection by the forensic examiner.