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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
Safely managing a patient’s Airway is one of the more challenging and complex tasks that health professionals have to undertake. Any mistakes in the same can lead to damaging outcomes. To counter these issues and challenges, FutureLearn developed the Airway Matters programme. It will help healthcare professionals such as you, to develop essential strategies to enhance patient safety in your area of expertise.
Also, the Airway Matters online programme by FutureLearn will enable you to prevent any complications, improve overall patient safety, and manage a variety of airway-related difficulties as and when they arise. Also, the course helps you realise the true potential of various human and technical resources. It will allow you to utilise them to the utmost betterment of your patients and clients.
The FutureLearn Airway Matters course also offers an achievement certificate if you have enrolled for the upgraded access. A variety of erudite professors teach the course, all hailing from the University College London (UCL). UCL is the partner university providing this course.
The Highlights
- Free course
- Six weeks duration
- Four hours per week commitment
- Expert faculty
- Online learning
- Self-paced learning
- Offered by University College London
Programme Offerings
- Self-paced learning
- free course
- Practical Training
- video lectures
- Career benefits
- four hours commitment every week
- 100 per cent online
- Six weeks duration
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Futurelearn |
Airway Matters Fee Structure :
Fees components | Amount |
Limited access | Free |
Buy this course | Rs. 2,200 |
Subscribe & save | Rs. 4,450 |
Eligibility Criteria
Since the FutureLearn Airway Matters course and course outcomes are in English, you must be proficient in the language.
What you will learn
By the end of the Airway Matters professional training programme, you will have a concrete grasp over practical and theoretical concepts such as:
- Safe airway management
- Airway equipment
- NAP4, recommendations, and key findings
- Special airway management techniques like High-Flow Nasal Oxygenation, Awake Tracheal Intubation, and Jet Ventilation
- Airway management in special circumstances such as that of obstetrics, pediatrics, and obesity
- Applying all the principles learned in real-life situations, thus preventing damage to the airways of patients, and saving their lives
Who it is for
The online Airway Matters course by FutureLearn is designed for all members of a multidisciplinary team who are responsible for providing airway support to patients. This team includes:
- Emergency and prehospital medicine physicians
- Paramedics
- Head and neck surgeons
- Operating department practitioners
- Nurses
- Anaesthesia associates
- Anaesthetists
- Cardiac arrest team
- Healthcare professionals as the programme offer a certificate of achievement that provides sufficient evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Admission Details
Step 1: To register in the Airway Matters online programme, log in to the FutureLearn website.
Step 2: On the course homepage, type the course name, “Airway Matters.”
Step 3: Find the “Join course for free” button at the top of the course webpage and select it.
Step 4: Register using your Google or Facebook credentials. You can also use a personal or organisational email address to register.
Step 5: Choose one of the enrolment options from the three and proceed with the registration.
The Syllabus
- Airway Safety: The Big Picture
- NAP4, Key Findings and Recommendations
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Capnography
- Anatomy: a Journey Through the Airways
- Assess the Airway and Develop a Strategy
- Airway Equipment
- Cognitive Tools
- Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate
- Rapid Sequence Induction
- Extubation
- The Obstructed Airway
- Special Techniques: Awake Tracheal Intubation, High-Flow Nasal Oxygenation, Jet Ventilation, LASER
- The Patient Journey
- Tracheostomies and Laryngectomies
- The Critically Ill Patient
- Airway Management in the Patient with COVID-19
- Paediatrics
- Obstetrics
- Obesity
- A Global Perspective
- Challenges and Standards
- Drugs and Equipment
- Safety
- Pre-hospital Airway Management & COVID 19