NextGen Learning To Elevate Your Airway Practice
An Integrated Learning Space
To Build Durable Skills
PAC is an integrated learning system, not a single course. Our digital content supports multiple learning styles, on your schedule. Begin in the PACscape to explore the concepts, mental models, and procedural frameworks that underpin safe airway management.
Need CME or an online course for yourself or your program? Our CME-enabled resources provide structured, on-demand education that stands on its own.
But airway skills are not built on screens alone. The same curriculum extends into the physical world through pop-up learning and hands-on training deployed where you work. Graphic, interactive posters guide procedures, skills challenges, expert coaching, and high-fidelity simulation, using a shared language across digital and physical spaces.
For deeper, tailored training, teams can book customized small-group sessions in our studio, or attend live courses and flagship events in New York City and partner sites worldwide.
The result is continuity—from online learning, to hands-on practice, to real-world performance. PAC gives you the tools, structure, and flexibility required for next-generation airway training.
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Learning Objectives
What It Means to Own the Head of the Bed
Owning the head of the bed is not about being the best intubator in the room. If it were, only a rare few would ever learn to intubate. Ownership is about being the person who shapes the environment and the plan before anyone reaches for a blade.
The Role: Designer, Not Just Proceduralist
This role is closer to a systems designer than a proceduralist. The head-of-bed clinician curates conditions. They arrange space, sequence actions, and compress chaos into something manageable. They control tempo. They decide when to slow down, when to stop, and when to proceed. Their aim is to turn an unpredictable human moment into a repeatable process.
How Success Is Built
Success at the head of the bed is never accidental. It’s built from habits that look simple and feel powerful in practice.
Equipment prepared before it’s needed.
Oxygen flowing before it’s threatened.
A team that knows not just what will happen next, but what happens if it doesn’t work.
These are not technical tricks. They are reliability strategies.
Responsibility for the Attempt
Owning the head of the bed means accepting a specific kind of responsibility. You are accountable not just for the tube, but for the attempt itself. For the decision to proceed. For the physiology you inherit and the physiology you create. For the moment when someone needs to hear “stop” as clearly as they need to hear “go.” Most importantly, preventing hypoxia if the initial attempt fails.
Orchestration Is the Differentiator
In modern airway management, technical skill is table stakes. What differentiates experts is orchestration. The ability to hold multiple timelines at once—oxygenation, hemodynamics, medications, and team readiness—and align them toward a single attempt that is deliberate, efficient, and recoverable.
What This Curriculum Is Really About
This curriculum focuses on the invisible work. The work that doesn’t appear on laryngoscopy footage. The work that determines whether the airway feels controlled or desperate.
When you truly own the head of the bed, the airway no longer feels like standing on the edge of a cliff. It feels like a sequence you’ve already rehearsed. Success stops being a leap of faith and becomes the predictable outcome of preparation.
Elements Required for HOB Success
There are four elements to success at the head of the bed. You must be able to prepare your patient, prepare your equipment, prepare your team, and you must be able to prepare yourself. In this space, we will guide you through the details of each so that you can be confident and take ownership of the airway operator’s home base.
What’s Next
Find Or Click Me
Nice work—you’re through this section! To keep going, scan the QR code on the physical poster at the next station in our pop-up training space to access the next set of digital content. Prefer to stay online? Just click the poster image here to continue your journey.
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