Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy

Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy is a two-hour Canadian Red Cross course that teaches you to open a patient's airway and administer supplemental oxygen safely. It covers manual techniques, oral airways, nasopharyngeal adjuncts, suction devices and the oxygen equipment that delivers through them.

The airway management course is written for healthcare professionals and responders — nurses, firefighters and rescue teams among them. Anyone whose kit carries adjuncts, suction devices or oxygen equipment gets the most from it.

Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy is two hours of teaching time, booked as a private session on your group's own date. It is fully in person, with no online portion of the training, because every topic is a physical skill.

No — Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy is only offered as private group training, for eight or more, at your own facility. A Canadian Red Cross instructor brings the airway adjuncts, the suction device and the oxygen equipment to you on your date. Basic Life Support can run the same day for the same group.

Basic Life Support is strongly recommended alongside Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy, and most students book both. BLS is four hours: high-performance CPR, automated external defibrillator use, trauma, opioid overdose and anaphylaxis.

Basic Life Support teaches you to resuscitate a patient; Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy teaches you to keep their airway open and get oxygen into them. They answer different halves of one emergency, which is why the two run back to back.

Yes — you need 100% attendance of the course and 75% on a multiple choice knowledge test. That 75% is the Canadian Red Cross written-exam standard.

The Canadian Red Cross Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy certificate is valid for three years. Do not assume a course you pair it with matches that term: a Canadian Red Cross Basic Life Support certificate runs one year.

No — Ontario WSIB Regulation 1101 is satisfied by Basic/Emergency First Aid or Intermediate/Standard First Aid, not by a clinical skills course. Coast2Coast is a WSIB-approved training provider, but that describes us rather than this certificate. Book Intermediate/Standard First Aid for workplace compliance; the majority of workplaces require Intermediate first aid certification.

Bag-valve-mask ventilation is taught in our Basic Life Support course, not in Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy. This course covers the oral airways, adjuncts and suction devices that keep a route open, and the oxygen equipment that delivers through it. Need bag-valve-mask practice too? Book Basic Life Support the same day.

Yes — Intermediate First Aid and Standard First Aid are two names for one course. The Canadian Red Cross changed the wording, so older certificates read Standard and newer ones read Intermediate. See our first aid course page.

Basic Life Support replaced CPR for Healthcare Providers, so CPR-HCP is no longer offered. Here is why we no longer run CPR-HCP.

The airway management course runs at your own facility in Ontario, because it is private training. Send us your date or call 1-866-291-9121 and a representative will confirm what we can cover. Our Ontario facility network is listed above.

Yes — that is the only way we run it. Private Airway Management & Oxygen Therapy courses take groups of eight or more, at your facility on your date. Private training comes with a discounted price and centralized billing. See private and group training.