Advanced Airway Skills for Rural Clinicians - Melbourne - 24 May 2026

Rural clinicians are often the first responders in critical airway emergencies. To strengthen these essential, life-saving skills, the ACRRM has developed the Advanced Airway course for Rural Clinicians. This program provides focused, hands-on learning in advanced airway management, delivered in a flexible blended format. 

The online modules cover the physiology of ventilation, airway protection strategies, pharmacology of airway drugs, and oxygen therapy techniques. This is followed by a face-to-face workshop where clinicians refine procedural and decision-making skills through immersive skills stations and case discussions including endotracheal intubation (with and without video laryngoscopy), cricothyroidotomy, ventilator management, and team-based airway crisis response.

By course completion, participants will be able to apply a structured approach to advanced airway management, tailor interventions to various pathologies and rural resource settings, and lead effective team responses during airway emergencies. This course empowers rural generalists and other frontline clinicians to deliver safe, skilled, and confident airway management — wherever they practise, and when every second counts.