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A Proven Multidisciplinary Approach to Education and Training in Airway Management
"If your patient can't breathe, nothing else matters!"
For more than a decade SLAM has successfully trained thousands of practitioners from across the spectrum of healthcare. Street Level Airway Management (SLAM) offers basic through advanced airway management training that is useful wherever emergency or difficult airway situations occur, from the street level to all levels of clinical practice. The system is based on the SLAM Concept, which shows that airway management is a common area of overlap for anesthesia, EMS, emergency medicine and respiratory care. No matter where the difficult or emergency airway situation occurs, SLAM offers airway management strategies for improving the patient outcome.
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Our Conferences
Our courses offer comprehensive lectures along with hands-on training. View our courses to register today!
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SLAM Airway
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At this full-day course we provide training from the street level through all levels of clinical practice in the hospital. Our focus is on Education & Training, Patient Safety and Clinical Competency.
The SLAM® Emergency & Difficult Airway Provider Course offers multidisciplinary instruction and application of basic, advanced and special airway considerations.
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SLAM Airway On-Demand brings the conference to your location enabling team building through simultaneous training of your entire staff.
Portable and Affordable
We bring the entire full-day SLAM Emergency & Difficult Airway Provider Course to your location. |
Pediatric airway management offers special challenges. The difficult airway contributes to both patient morbidity and mortality. It is important to have a planned approach for both the anticipated and unanticipated difficult airway.
Featuring noted pediatric airway experts, this unique full-day conference covers:
- overview of the pediatric airway
- pediatric oxygenation & ventilation
- pediatric airway emergencies
- traumatized pediatric airway
- difficult pediatric airway
- pediatric resuscitation update
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This Course includes human airway cadaver stations, enabling one to practice various aspects of emergency and difficult airway management on a human cadaver.
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Our Mission
 To promote the public health and well being by teaching safe and effective airway management techniques for prehospital and hospital based healthcare practitioners.
To assist the healthcare community and others through programs of airway management education and training.
To encourage the highest standards of airway management in personnel and equipment.
To participate in the future direction of emergency and difficult airway management by promoting and encouraging education and life long learning.
Our Resources
SLAM Text Book
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SLAM Flowchart
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
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Breathing is the KEY - Education is the ANSWER!
- Oxygenation, ventilation intubation
- Decision making in airway management
- Airway anatomy & assessment
- Special techniques to overcome airway difficulty
- Bougie-assisted intubation
- Rescue ventilation using supgralottic airway devices
- Videolaryngoscopy and use of fiberoptic stylets
- Managing the traumatized airway
- Pediatric airway management
- Airway pharmacology
- Burns and inhalation injury
- Cervical spine injured patient
- Legal implications of airway management
- Confirmation of tracheal intubation & monitoring of lung ventilation
- Comprehensive strategies for airway management
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The SLAM Emergency & Difficult Airway Flowchart -
A 21st Century Guideline for Airway Practitioners
- Demystifying the difficult airway
- Airway assessment
- The crash airway
- Resolving a failed intubation
- Rapid Sequence Pathway
- Difficult Intubation Pathway
- Oxygenation-Ventilation Pathway
- Rescue Ventilation Pathway
- Cricothyrotomy Pathway
Winner of the 2003 Best Exhibit for Clinical Application at the 57th Post Graduate Assembly of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists.
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AANA J. 2009 Oct;77(5):339-42.
Rescue ventilation: resolving a "cannot mask ventilate, cannot intubate" situation during exchange of a Combitube for a definitive airway.
Our anesthesia care team was called to care for a patient who was admitted to the emergency department with the esophageal-tracheal double-lumen airway device (Combitube, Tyco Healthcare, Nellcor, Pleasanton, California) in place, which needed to be exchanged for a definitive airway because the patient required an extended period of mechanical ventilation.
Several techniques were attempted to exchange the esophageal-tracheal Combitube (ETC) without success.
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