The Protected Airway

Talking Airway Management with Scott Weingart on EMCrit

Podcast Listen Here I recently had the pleasure of joining Scott Weingart on the EMCrit FOAM Feed to discuss airway management and the challenge of preparing clinicians to perform at their best when the stakes are highest. Scott has been one of the most influential voices in emergency and critical care education for years. Through EMCrit and the broader FOAMed movement, he has consistently pushed the field to think more clearly about resuscitation, procedure performance, and how we train clinicians to handle the most dangerous moments in medicine....

Enhancing Airway Management Skills: Insights from Experts Join the insightful discussion on airway management with Scott Weingart, as we explore training, skills, and high-stakes procedures in medicine.

The HALO Course – NYC April 18th 2026

High-Acuity Skills. No Margin for Error. CME is available. Space is limited by design. Each year, clinicians come to us for one reason: to rehearse the procedures they may encounter only once or twice in a career, yet must execute flawlessly when they do. Tracheoinnominate fistula. Massive hemoptysis. Severe airway contamination. The failed airway deteriorating into a can’t-intubate, can’t-oxygenate crisis. These are defining moments....

Master HALO Procedures: Intensive Training for Critical Care Join the HALO Course for intensive, hands-on training in critical airway procedures with expert feedback. Reserve your spot today!

The HALO Missions Begin

In 2026, we will be launching the HALO Missions curriculum. High-acuity, low-occurrence procedures occupy a unique and unforgiving place in airway management. They are rare. They arrive without warning. They compress time and expose the limits of human performance. These moments shape clinicians more profoundly than routine success ever could. This curriculum is designed to meet those moments directly. Not with checklists or one-off courses alone, not with clickbait or abstract theory, but with a deeper exploration of how clinicians actually think, decide, and perform when conditions are at their most challenging....

Introducing HALO Missions: A New Era in Medical Education Discover the innovative HALO Missions curriculum launching in 2026, designed to enhance clinical performance in high-stakes airway management.

What the New DAS Guidelines Says about Obesity

DAS25: From Footnote to Phenotype In the 2015 Difficult Airway Society (DAS) guidelines, obesity appeared as a footnote, tucked into a long list of “risk factors” for difficult mask ventilation and intubation. It was something to note, not something to plan around. DAS 2025 flips that script. In line with the broader shift from “rescuing failure” to “engineering success,” patients living with obesity are finally recognized as a distinct high-risk airway phenotype....

https://theprotectedairway.com/2026/01/10/from-footnote-to-phenotype/

Heartfelt Thanks for Being Part of PAC This Year - https://mailchi.mp/49a72876c783/heartfelt-thanks-for-being-part-of-pac-this-year