000 The Protected Airway Collaborative

Build airway readiness for the moments that matter.

Airway education can leave a gap between clinical reasoning and hands-on practice. PACscapes connect visual models and clinical guidance to focused rehearsal with essential equipment, so you can work through difficult-airway decisions on your own or with your team.

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Featured PACscape · One place to begin Accession PAC // 100
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Join the OxyGENation Build a plan for oxygenation before, during, and after airway management. View PACscape

Which airway challenge would you like to feel more prepared for?

PACscapes give you a place to elevate your practice: explore airway challenges, apply your clinical reasoning, and focus your next rehearsal—on your own or with your team.

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PAC 300 Pediatric Airway poster Artifact 300 // Pediatric Airway The Pediatric Airway Get to work on building your pediatric airway skills. PAC 410 Tools of the Trade poster: Navigate the toughest curves Artifact 410 // Tools of the Trade Navigate the toughest curves Practice tube delivery with a hyperangulated blade. PAC 430 Flexible Bronchoscopic Intubation poster PACscape 430 // Free introduction Flexible Bronchoscopic Intubation Plan your flexible bronchoscopic approach, then rehearse it with equipment.

PAC // A living training environment

One visual anchor. Multiple ways into the work.

Every PACscape organizes a clinical problem around one visual model. The same model moves from artwork to screen to equipment, keeping the anatomy, decisions, and language visible as the learning surface changes.

PAC is a collaborative of airway clinicians and educators. We build each learning space around the anatomy, physiology, device, and decisions that shape the work. The same model stays available for review, equipment rehearsal, and teaching.

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    Notice

    Visual anchor

    PAC artwork makes the problem visible and gives the learning space a durable point of return.

  2. 02

    Inspect

    Digital guidance

    Focused explanation, evidence, video, audio, and cognitive tools expose the mechanism and the choice.

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    Rehearse

    Deliberate practice

    Equipment prompts and practice labs move the model toward the blade, tube, screen, mannequin, cart, or room.

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    Refine

    Live refinement

    Coaching, observation, correction, and another attempt reveal what still catches.

PACscape Collection // Original Six

Six learning spaces. One connected system.

Each PACscape begins with a clinical problem and gives it a visual anchor, digital guide, and practice environment. The same model remains in view as the learner moves between them.

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PAC // 100Oxygenation
Join the OxyGENation poster

Join the OxyGENation

Oxygenation is the mission. Everything else is tactics.

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PAC // 200Foundational
Own the Head of the Bed poster

Own the Head of the Bed

Prepare the patient, equipment, position, and team.

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PAC // 300Pediatric
The Pediatric Airway poster

The Pediatric Airway

Build readiness for the pediatric airway, which is not simply a smaller version of the adult airway.

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PAC // 400Anatomical
Anatomically Difficult Airway poster

Anatomically Difficult

Plan for uncertainty, optimize the first attempt, and prepare for failure.

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PAC // 500Resuscitation
Physiologically Difficult Airway poster

Physiologically Difficult

Resuscitate the pressure, oxygenation, pH, and pump before the tube.

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PAC // 600Environment
Situationally Difficult Airway poster

Situationally Difficult

Build readiness for human factors, hostile settings, and the unexpected.

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The PAC Journal · Free to join

Keep your airway practice current.

Practice-changing airway evidence, expert insights, and education and training resources from the Protected Airway Collaborative. Delivered by email.

From the field // 01

Scott Weingart, MDOn The Protected Airway

“People would be missing out if they don’t check out The Protected Airway site.”

Visitor routes // Three ways in

Built for people who teach and perform.

Begin with your own practice, use PAC to build a stronger teaching environment, or bring a shared system to an entire team.

01 // Individual practice

Clinicians

Build judgment and technique through material you can revisit and practice you can repeat.

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02 // Shared language

Educators & programs

Build repeatable local training around visual anchors, teaching scripts, and practice tools.

Build a learning space

From the field // 02

“We were genuinely blown away. The instructors were exceptionally knowledgeable, but also approachable, welcoming, and eager to answer questions. They created a safe, engaging environment where everyone felt comfortable learning and challenging themselves.”

— Vick Niranjan, Paramedic

The PAC Journal // Free email

Keep your airway practice current.

Get new evidence and what it may change in practice, expert perspectives, and resources for learning and teaching—delivered by email.

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A training system that stays in use.

Study the problem on screen, carry the same model to the equipment, and return when practice exposes another gap. Educators can use the same tools to build repeatable training for a team.

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