Our Airway Management course is a short, in-person certification designed for healthcare providers who need to develop and maintain airway management skills. This course is often taken alongside Basic Life Support (BLS) and Oxygen Therapy (OT) but can be taken on its own for focused airway management training.
The Canadian Red Cross Airway Management course provides participants with the essential knowledge and hands-on practice to create and maintain a patient airway in emergency and clinical settings. Participants will learn key interventions, including the use of airway adjuncts and proper equipment selection to support effective airway management.
This course is ideal for pre-hospital and in-facility healthcare providers who need to maintain or enhance their airway management skills.
Key Topics Covered:
This course emphasizes practical, hands-on learning to build confidence in airway management during high-pressure situations.
This course is designed for healthcare providers and emergency responders but does not require prior airway management experience. However, familiarity with BLS and CPR is beneficial.
Airway Management includes:
The Canadian Red Cross Airway Management certifications we issue with successful completion of our Airway Management course are valid for 3 years from the date you complete the course. If you take it alongside a BLS course, you will have to recertify BLS annually but you only have to retake the Airway Management portion of the course every 3 years.
Our airway Management course is geared toward those learning Basic Life Support. In the Airway Management course we offer you will learn how to use basic airway management techniques and tools that are generally available to responders and healthcare workers outside of a hospital such as suction, oropharyngeal airways (OPA) and nasopharyngeal airways (NPA) We do not teach advanced airway management courses geared toward those learning Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support. This level of airway management involves the use of advanced and far more invasive airway adjuncts used by medical professionals for Advanced Life Support.
In the Airway Management courses we teach you will learn mouth opening techniques, airway clearing techniques, and ongoing maintenance of an open airway either through patient positioning or using adjuncts (such as an OPA or NPA).
The Airway Management course includes the following materials:
If you have a group of people and would like us to come to you to teach a
Airway Management course, we offer this course in the following locations:
Victoria - Downtown | Vancouver | Nanaimo | Victoria - Tillicum Centre | Burnaby | Duncan (300 Brae Road) | Virtual Classroom | Trillium Lodge |
Give us a call at 1.866.282.5378, or send us an email at grouptraining@alertfirstaid.com to arrange a group course.