One-Day SLAM Emergency Airway Provider Course with Human Airway Cadaver
Lab AKA SLAM Express
SLAM - Street Level Airway Management by
James Michael Rich, CRNA was published in September 2007 by Brady – Pearson – Prentice Hall. This will be
the textbook for all future courses and is available on our website.
We have revamped the SLAM Express (SLAM Airway Provider Course) to cover the first 8 chapters of the
book with 10 hours of lecture and hands-on to include our renowned pig-cricothyrotomy workshop.
Continuing
Education is being applied for or is already approved(and has always been approved in the past) to include the following:
AANA
ASTNA
Texas
Department of Health
CECBEMS
Course Content:
Lectures and hands-on will cover the following: - Human Airway Cadaver Lab
- SLAM Universal Emergency
Airway Flowchart (Lecture)
- Airway Anatomy and Assessment (Lecture)
- Oxygenation and Ventilation in Adults (Lecture)
- Direct Laryngoscopy and Tracheal Intubation (Lecture)
- Confirmation of Tracheal Intubation and Monitoring of Lung Ventilation (Lecture)
- Pharmacology of Airway Management (Lecture)
- Rapid Sequence
Induction and Intubation in Adults (Lecture)
- Rescue Ventilation (Lecture)
- Direct laryngoscopy and Tracheal Intubation (Hands-on Station)
- Rescue Ventilation (Hands-on Station)
- Rescue Intubation
(Hands-on Station)
- Fiberscopic and Advanced Techniques (Hands-on Station)
- Difficult Intubation Options (Hands-on Station)
- Pig Cricothyrotomy Lab (Hands-on Lab featuring percutaneous dilational cricothyrotomy, trans-tracheal jet ventilation,
and surgical cricothyrotomy)
- AirMan Skills Testing Station
The Human Airway
Cadaver Lab covers:
Simple
techniques to overcome failed intubation
Rescue ventilation utilizing FDA approved supraglottic airway devices
Videolaryngoscopy
Needle cricothyrotomy
Lectures are covered in hours 1 through 4. In hours 5 through 10 the
hands-on portion is presented to include a cricothyrotomy workshop using pig laryngeal-tracheal segments. A written
test is also taken by each attendee. Participants receive a certificate of completion and a SLAM Airway Provider Card
(good for two years).
Cost: $500.00 includes:
the SLAM textbook, Lectures, Hands-on, and Pig Cricothyrotomy lab and *cadaver lab.
These courses will be held at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in
Fort Worth unless otherwise specified. The projected schedule primarily lists UNT at Fort Worth, but other
cities will be added based on your requests. We have listed local hotels for our Fort Worth classes.
