Office-Based Emergency Airway Management (OBEAM)

October 14, 2026

Strengthen your ability to recognize and manage airway emergencies through focused online education and immersive, simulation-based training.

Why Attend?

• Strengthen your preparation for airway emergencies in the office-based setting.
• Practice essential airway-management techniques in a controlled simulation environment.
• Gain experience using bag-valve-mask ventilation and adjunctive airway devices.
• Apply a team-based approach to the recognition and management of airway complications.
• Review clinical cases and discuss practical strategies for improving patient safety.
• Receive individualized faculty guidance in a small-group setting limited to 10 participants per session.

Program Highlights

Office-based airway emergencies require rapid assessment, effective communication, and the coordinated application of appropriate airway-management techniques. This blended-learning course combines four hours of online self-study with two hours of faculty-guided, hands-on simulation. The online self-study module establishes the clinical foundation for recognizing airway risk, interpreting patient-monitoring data, maintaining airway patency, and selecting appropriate airway interventions. During the hands-on session, participants will apply these principles through instructor demonstrations, guided skills practice, case discussion, and simulation-based emergency scenarios.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply airway anatomy and physiology principles to the assessment and management of patients in the office-based setting.
2. Identify patient-specific risk factors for airway complications and select appropriate management strategies.
3. Interpret electrocardiogram and capnography findings associated with potential airway compromise.
4. Perform one- and two-person bag-valve-mask ventilation in simulated airway scenarios.
5. Select and use appropriate airway adjuncts during simulated clinical emergencies.
6. Recognize and manage partial and complete laryngospasm in a simulated setting.
7. Apply the OMS airway algorithm and team-based communication
   principles during office-based airway emergencies.

Online Self-Study Module

• Anatomy and physiology of the airway
• Patient selection and risk assessment, including considerations for pediatric, geriatric, and obese patients
• Patient monitoring, including EKG interpretation and capnography
• Supplemental oxygen sources and delivery systems
• Techniques for maintaining an open airway
• Bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilation: one- and two-person methods for simple and complex airways
• Use of adjunctive airway devices: oral/nasal pharyngeal airways, endotracheal tubes, LMA/iGel, AirTraq
• Recognition and management of laryngospasm (partial and complete)

Hands-On Training Module

• Instructor demonstration and guided practice using adjunctive airway devices
• Simulation-based scenarios, including laryngospasm and airway complications in morbidly obese patients
• Application of the OMS airway algorithm to office-based practice
• Team-based approach to Office-Based Emergency Airway Management (OBEAM)
• Review of real-world airway cases and discussion of management and outcomes

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for oral and maxillofacial surgeons who provide office-based anesthesia and wish to strengthen their preparation for airway emergencies.

The following groups are eligible:

• Oral and maxillofacial surgery residents
• Dentist anesthesiologists
• Dental anesthesia team members
• Other dentists providing office-based sedation or anesthesia