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The Protected Airway Collaborative is building something different: a community focused on durable airway skills, the kind that hold up when the situation becomes critical.
If you work in pre-hospital medicine and want to sharpen your airway practice, we would love to see you in the studio. Spend the day practicing, asking questions, and learning alongside leading airway educators in the field.
Come get your reps.
Airway Works NYC
Explore. Practice. Return anytime.
“More than a course. A training system built for practice.”
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For EMS providers, we have a special OxyGeN2.0 day at Airway Works NYC. The Protected Airway Collaborative has created an EMS-focused program. Walk through immersive learning stations, work with state-of-the-art equipment, and refine your technique alongside world-renowned faculty. Supported by Verathon, this program is discounted for all EMS providers.
How PAC Works
Start Online → Train Hands-On → Refine Live
Location
Airway Works NYC
135 W 20th St
New York, NY 10011
How PAC Live Events Work (FAQs)
Explore hands-on learning stations, practice critical skills with state-of-the-art equipment, and refine your technique with expert coaching in a relaxed, immersive learning studio designed for deliberate practice.
Experience An Entirely New Way to Learn
The Protected Airway is built differently from traditional medical education experiences. Every aspect of the environment is meticulously designed to support deliberate practice, hands-on learning, and durable skill development before, during, and after the event.
Here are answers to some commonly asked questions. Once you experience a PAC Learning Space in person, the system and philosophy behind it become immediately clear.
How do PAC Learning Spaces Work?
How PAC Learning Spaces Work
PAC events are different from traditional airway courses.
Instead of sitting in lectures all day, participants move through immersive, interactive PAC Learning Spaces focused on specific airway topics like oxygenation, hyperangulated video laryngoscopy, SALAD, physiologically difficult airway management, and Fearless FONA.
Each Learning Space combines:
- Hands-on deliberate practice
- Large visual teaching installations
- QR-connected digital resources
- Guided procedural walkthroughs
- Self-directed skill stations
- Real-time coaching from PAC faculty
The goal is not passive learning. The goal is repetition, understanding, and durable skill development.
To get the most out of the experience, participants should bring:
- A mobile phone or tablet
- Headphones or earbuds
These are used throughout the event to access integrated PAC digital learning resources, guided audio walkthroughs, procedural videos, and QR-linked educational content embedded directly into the physical learning spaces.
Is the experience self-directed or faculty-led?
Is the experience self-directed or faculty-led?
Both, intentionally.
PAC Learning Spaces are designed as self-directed, immersive training environments where participants can practice skills at their own pace in a low-pressure, judgment-free setting. Instead of being rushed through stations on a fixed timer, participants are encouraged to slow down, repeat procedures, revisit concepts, and spend more time where they personally need it most.
This format creates something that is surprisingly rare in traditional medical education: meaningful time for deliberate practice.
Participants are not standing waiting for a single attempt while large groups rotate through crowded stations. There is no pressure to “keep up” with the room. The goal is not performance in front of an audience. The goal is skill development through repetition, exploration, and feedback.
Because the Learning Spaces are continuously available throughout the session, participants get far more hands-on reps than they would during a traditional workshop format.
PAC faculty are in the studio providing individualized coaching, procedural guidance, troubleshooting, and customized feedback based on each learner’s needs and experience level. This creates a very different educational dynamic compared to large-group lectures or tightly scripted stations where one instructor speaks to many learners simultaneously.
In many ways, participants actually get more meaningful faculty interaction in this model because conversations happen organically during practice, exactly when questions and challenges arise in real time.
Some learners may spend extra time refining a technical skill. Others may focus on cognitive frameworks, airway strategy, or troubleshooting difficult scenarios. The environment is intentionally flexible, allowing learners to build confidence and competence through repetition rather than simply “completing” stations.
The result is a training experience designed around how people actually develop procedural expertise: deliberate practice, immediate feedback, repetition, and psychological safety.
Who is this training designed for?
Who is this training designed for?
PAC is designed for clinicians involved in airway management across all experience levels, including:
- EMS providers
- Residents and fellows
- Attending physicians
- CRNAs
- Physician assistants
- Critical care clinicians
Some participants are learning foundational concepts. Others are refining advanced techniques and mental models. The Learning Spaces are designed to support both.
Do I need prior airway experience?
No. Many Learning Spaces are designed to help learners build strong foundational concepts and procedural understanding. More experienced clinicians often use the spaces to refine technique, improve consistency, and pressure-test decision-making.
What Does Your Registration Include?
What Does My Registration Include?
Your registration includes:
- Access to the live PAC training experience on your selected event day
- Full access to all PAC Learning Spaces during your visit
- Access to PAC faculty coaching and guided practice
- A complimentary premium subscription to The Protected Airway website for the included trial period
- Continued access to all PAC digital learning resources before, during, and after the event
The PAC website is designed to work together with the live experience. Reviewing the material before your visit and revisiting it afterward significantly improves retention and hands-on performance.
Why does my purchase include a subscription to the website?
How Does the Subscription Work?
Your registration includes complimentary premium access to The Protected Airway website because the PAC experience is designed as a fully integrated digital and physical learning environment.
Throughout the event, participants actively use the PAC platform to access:
- QR-linked learning resources embedded throughout the studio
- Guided audio walkthroughs
- Procedural videos
- Interactive educational content
- Visual references and cognitive frameworks connected to each Learning Space
This is why we ask participants to bring a mobile device and headphones.
The digital platform is not an “extra add-on.” It is an essential part of how PAC Learning Spaces function and how participants move through the experience.
We also encourage participants to explore the material before arriving and revisit it afterward to reinforce procedural skills and key concepts over time.
Your registration includes premium access for the introductory trial period associated with your ticket. After the trial period ends, the membership continues at the standard annual subscription rate unless canceled. There is no obligation to continue, and you may cancel anytime through your account settings.
What happens after you register?
What happens after I register?
After registration, you will receive:
- Event confirmation details
- Instructions for selecting your event date/time if applicable
- Access to the PAC digital platform
- Guidance on how to prepare for your visit
We recommend reviewing the digital content before arriving so you can get the most out of the in-person experience.
How long will you have access to the online content?
How Long Do I Have Access?
Your event ticket is for a specific event day and time slot, but your website access continues throughout your included trial period.
The digital platform is meant to support:
- Preparation before the event
- Active learning during the event
- Ongoing deliberate practice after the event
Many participants continue using the platform long after the live experience because the PAC system is designed as an ongoing training ecosystem, not a one-time course.
Can I come with colleagues or a group?
Can I come with colleagues or a group?
Yes. PAC works very well for teams and departments. Group and institutional options may be available depending on scheduling and capacity.
No lectures. No crowded conference rooms. No expensive multi-day courses.
Move through the studio at your own pace. Spend an hour mastering a single skill or exploring every station. Come on your own or bring a colleague. With small groups and no time pressure, you gain meaningful access to expert faculty and the kind of focused practice traditional courses rarely provide.
Meet the Experts (Our Airway Artists in Residence)
Expert faculty will be at the studio all day to work one-on-one with you, answer your burning airway questions, and help you hone your skills.
No lectures. No crowded conference rooms. No expensive multi-day courses.
Explore hands-on learning stations, practice critical skills with state-of-the-art equipment, and refine your technique with expert coaching in a relaxed, immersive learning studio designed for deliberate practice.
Move through the studio at your own pace. Spend an hour mastering a single skill or exploring every station. Come on your own or bring a colleague. With small groups and no time pressure, you gain meaningful access to expert faculty and the kind of focused practice traditional courses rarely provide.
- Train in our hands-on learning spaces
- Work directly with expert faculty
- Build skills in a focused 2–3 hour session
- Earn CAPCE credits
What Makes This Different
The goal is simple: fewer lecture slides, more reps.
Most airway education happens as a one-time event in a makeshift conference room. A few lectures, a brief skills station, then everyone goes home.
This event takes place inside a purpose-built training studio designed specifically for airway education. Airway Works NYC was built to support learning before, during, and long after your visit. Instead of rushing through short demonstrations, you move through immersive learning spaces where you can practice deliberately, repeat key skills, and refine your technique with guidance from experienced airway educators.
The goal is simple: the education that doesn’t end when the course is over.
Just as important, this is not a one-and-done training event. The Protected Airway Collaborative is building a community and learning ecosystem dedicated to high-quality airway education. Everything we design is built around how clinicians actually learn, and around the realities of the clinical environments where you practice.
PAC is not just a course; it is a learning ecosystem.
When the day is over, you do not leave it behind. You pack it up and take it with you. The learning spaces you experience in the studio are designed to be recreated anywhere. PAC provides the digital resources, guidance, and equipment recommendations needed to build affordable pop-up airway training stations at your own institution, station, or training program. The goal is simple: make it easy to create regular, hands-on, deliberate practice wherever clinicians work.
All participants will receive free trial access to the Protected Airway Collaborative’s online learning platform, where the same immersive learning spaces live in digital form. You can review concepts, revisit demonstrations, and use the materials to support ongoing airway practice long after the event is over.
Learning Spaces You’ll Explore
Oxygenation and the Airway Lifelines
Enter the studio and begin with the foundations that keep patients alive: oxygenation and team coordination during airway crises.
In this space, participants work through the cognitive and technical framework for airway management in critical situations. You will practice the three upper-airway lifelines:
- Effective bag-valve-mask ventilation
- Supraglottic airway placement
- Endotracheal intubation
Participants also learn cognitive tools that help teams stay organized during high-stress airway events.
Laryngoscopy and Intubation
Participants practice both traditional and modern approaches to laryngoscopy, including:
- Direct laryngoscopy
- Standard geometry video laryngoscopy
Hyperangulated Video Laryngoscopy
Many EMS systems are transitioning to hyperangulated video laryngoscopy. This learning space focuses specifically on the mechanics of that technique.
Participants will practice:
- Blade positioning and camera alignment
- Tube delivery using rigid stylets
- Troubleshooting difficult views
The goal is to make hyperangulated VL predictable and repeatable.
Fearless FONA
Emergency front-of-neck access is a rare procedure, but hesitation when it is needed can be catastrophic.
In this space, participants will practice the scalpel–finger–bougie–tube approach to emergency cricothyrotomy and work through the mindset required to make the decision when oxygenation cannot be restored.
This is not just about technique. It is about building the confidence to act decisively when the moment arrives.
Practice With State-of-the-Art Equipment
Throughout the studio, you will work with modern airway tools and innovative training systems developed by the PAC team that you won’t find anywhere else. Faculty will be present at every station to guide practice, troubleshoot technique, and answer questions.
Expect a day that feels more like a skills lab than a conference.
Meet the PAC Community
Participants will also have the chance to spend time with faculty and members of the growing Protected Airway Collaborative community. These are clinicians and educators who are deeply committed to improving airway training through better design, better practice environments, and better teaching methods.
The atmosphere is informal, collaborative, and focused on skill development.
Event Details
Date: June 29
Location: Airway Works NYC, Chelsea, New York City
Audience: Paramedics, EMTs, and pre-hospital airway providers
Cost: $49 per participant
The goal is to keep this event accessible while providing a high-quality training experience.
Space is limited in order to maintain small practice groups and maximize hands-on time.
What You’ll Leave With
Participants can expect to leave the studio with:
- Improved confidence in core airway skills
- Hands-on experience with modern airway devices
- Practical strategies for managing contaminated and difficult airways
- Repetition of high-stakes procedures rarely practiced in the field
- Connections with a community of clinicians passionate about airway management
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