SAMI (Safer Airway Management in Intensive Care)

SAMI is an inter-professional course that aims to improve the safety of patients during airway management in an intensive care environment, through staff education. This page provides all the information you need to run a course at your own hospital.

The SAMI course

The SAMI course is a one day inter-professional course for intensive care staff. The aims of the SAMI study day are to

•  improve patient safety when intubating on ICU
• develop the inter-professional team skills required for airway management of the critically ill patient
• initially to train key people across the region with the aim of creating a core of skilled people to distribute it to their own trusts

By the end of the course all candidates should be confident to undertake their role in

• an emergency intubation on ICU
•  a difficult intubation situation on ICU
•  a can’t intubate, can’t ventilate situation on ICU

The course involves

• On-line e-learning (to be completed prior to the course)
• Pre and post course reflection (the pre course reflection should be completed prior to the course)
• Practical stations covering airway equipment and skills
• Interactive discussion on human factors
• Simulated scenarios

Local courses

One of the aims of the SAMI course is to train key people across the region with the aim of creating a core of skilled people to distribute it to their own trusts. This material provided has been designed to facilitate individual units to run their own SAMI course locally and increase the number of staff who have access to airway training at a consistent quality.