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Emergency Airway Checklist

A visual and interactive four-phase emergency airway checklist organized around Preparation, Timeout, Failed Attempt/Difficult Airway, and Post-Airway care. The site includes an interactive checklist, contextual clinical guidance, and a downloadable one-page PDF for on-shift use or simulation teaching.

Quick Hits / On Shift

Rapid-access cognitive support for airway management, including medication, pediatric, sizing, and ventilator calculators; post-intubation rescue and troubleshooting pathways; timeout and handoff scripts; cognitive-offload tools; and debriefing resources.

Airway of the Month

A monthly case-based tutorial series examining airway technique, view optimization, adjuncts, alternative approaches, and case-specific teaching points.

Airway Skills & Procedure Videos

Simulation-based instructional videos covering room setup, preoxygenation, positioning, bag-mask ventilation, suction, laryngoscope and blade use, video laryngoscopy, bougie and Magill-forceps techniques, fiberoptic skills, cricothyrotomy, tracheostomy management, and difficult-airway examples.

Airway Video Database and Archive

A free, open-access collection of deidentified airway videos for education and research. Learners can browse the archive or use topic and hashtag searches to review specific scenarios, devices, or techniques. An introductory video explains the purpose and navigation of the database.

Structured Learning

Case-based airway situations, skill decks, micro-drills, step-based teaching, pediatric and EMS content, ventilator education, and debriefing guides for learners, faculty, and simulation educators.

Credits and Disclaimer

The Airway Video Database is a free, open-access repository of deidentified videos created at The University of Kansas Medical Center and The University of Kansas Health System by Dr. Andrew Pirotte. Educational content is created and produced by Dr. Andrew Pirotte, Dr. Kyle Brown, and Dr. Reba Hodge. Medication and calculator content has also undergone emergency-medicine pharmacist review.

This is an educational resource and cognitive-aid guide only. It is not a bedside order set or a substitute for institutional protocols, medical direction, supervised clinical training, or bedside clinical judgment.