Emergency Physician Airway Management (EPAM) (Wiser) 8.12.19
The Emergency Physician Airway Management (EPAM) program will train physicians how to utilize the difficult airway algorithm and airway devices to successfully manage difficult airways. Difficult Airways are a low volume, high risk event that physicians rarely encounter. However, if they are mismanaged, can result in the morbidity of a patient.
Target Audience
Physicians
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to manage and avoid critical errors in the hospital, focus on leadership skills including communication, judgment, planning, resource management, and medical knowledge/application.
Francis Guyette, MD
Disclosure:
No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.
Accreditation and credit designation
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh School designates this blended activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Healthcare Professionals
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 4.00 Attendance