Calm in crisis.Clear in method. Prepared in mind. Steady in hand.
Build the mindset, plan, and practiced response that let you act when oxygenation fails.
Learn online for the complete chapter. At the FONA station, begin with the orientation film and continue to the physical task map. Educators can open the set-up guide.
Begin with the mindset foundation, then work through human factors, simplicity, planning, and practice. Every original lesson, resource, and QR destination remains available.
Build the mental model that makes decisive action possible when oxygenation fails.
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Confront the fear, language, stress response, and teamwork failures that delay FONA.
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Reduce cognitive load and design a FONA response that remains usable under pressure.
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Turn algorithms into an actionable strategy for amplification, escalation, and readiness.
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Protect a low-frequency skill through anatomy, mechanics, repetition, and deliberate rehearsal.
Enter chapter →A FONA response is a short physical sequence: scalpel, bougie, tube. Delay often begins before any of them move—in the clinician’s stress response, the language used by the team, the equipment at hand, and a plan no one has rehearsed. This room defines what the program covers and what the learner should be able to do when it is complete.
The emergency surgical airway is mechanically simple. The conditions around it are not.
Fear, ambiguous language, task overload, unfamiliar equipment, and an unrehearsed plan can delay the cut. Fearless FONA addresses those constraints in a fixed sequence.
Build the mindset. Examine the human factors. Subtract complexity. Make the plan explicit. Then practice until the hands can follow it under pressure.
Move through the sequence once from beginning to end. Then return to the chapter or station that addresses the part of the response you need to rehearse.
Each element changes a specific part of the response. The aim is not recognition alone. The learner should be able to use the idea when the room becomes loud, the clock becomes visible, and oxygenation has failed.
Recognize how stress, fear, language, and team behavior shape action—and use practical performance tools when they begin to interfere.
Identify unnecessary complexity and reduce the procedure, equipment, and language to their essential functions.
State the plan, share its trigger, and deploy specific FONA tactics—including the double set-up—before the crisis demands them.
Perform eFONA in the correct sequence, smoothly and rapidly, then use repetition to preserve access to the skill.
A poster on a wall is not yet a practice station. The set-up guide connects the space, equipment, learner instructions, and faculty role so hands-on practice can begin without improvising the room.
Define the wall, work surface, and path through the station.
Put each poster where it can guide the next physical task.
Arrange the necessary tools where the learner’s hands need them.
Set expectations for learners and establish the faculty coaching role.
Inside the complete guidePoster files, printing options, equipment guidance, learner prebrief, and faculty coaching notes.
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