Category Archives: Lectures

Lectures, M&M

#badEM: My Best & Biggest Blunders

Audio

While not exclusively airway themed, this talk for the #badEM symposium in September 2016 addresses the concepts of making mistakes in medicine, and how to make them meaningful.  badEM are a shining light in South African #FOAM, and I’m very grateful for the invitation to speak and share at their event.  For more info and pearls from the talk, see their page here.  The podcast is shared below.

Lectures, Simulation

October Airway & Thoracics Skills Courses open for bookings!

The UCT Department of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine in conjunction with OpenAirway is running the next set of airway and thoracic anaesthesia skills courses during October.  Information and bookings are now available via the Courses page here.  There are three back-to-back courses which build upon the skill sets:

  • Core Airway Skills – Suitable for any medical practitioner who may need to perform airway management, especially in an emergency setting.  This starts with the basics (such as airway assessment and face-mask ventilation) and covers everything up to airway rescue and surgical airways except fibreoptic intubation.
  • AEIOU – “Airway Endoscopy for Intubation and Other Uses” is for practitioners wanting to master videolaryngoscopy, learn the use of rigid intubating scopes and rigid bronchoscopy, and learn fibreoptic skills, including awake fibreoptic intubation.
  • Thoracic Anaesthesia Skills – Designed as a primer or refresher for anaesthetists who want to perform lung isolation and one-long ventilation, this course covers important topics like the physiology of OLV, lung separation and isolation techniques, practical uses of double-lumen tubes and bronchial blockers, and the approach to the thoracic patient with a difficult airway.

Co to the courses page for more information and to book a place!

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Algorithms, Guidelines, Lecture Notes, Lectures

Cape Town FCA2 Refresher: DAS 2015 Guidelines

Here’s the excellent simulation/re-enactment video from Simpact on the Elaine Bromiley Case that I featured in the lecture.

You can download my accompanying lecture notes on the DAS 2015 guidelines here:

FCA2 Refresher 2016 Notes – Hofmeyr – Difficult Airway Society 2015 Guidelines

Frerk et al’s article on the 2015 guidelines is available from the BJA here (open access), and the excellent recent editorial on front-of-neck access by Timmerman, Chrimes and Hagberg is here.  This is not in the notes, as it has only just been published online.

The links to the different algorithms are on the Algorithms page, or you can browse the DAS website.

The surgical airway technique video that woudn’t play is below.

Lectures, Paediatric, Supraglottics

ICEM2016 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course resources

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The first African presentation of the PEMC (Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course) is being run as one of the pre-conference workshops for ICEM 2016 at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital today.  OpenAirway is present, assisting with the airway stations.  Course instructors have given their blessing to host some of the supplementary material online for the #FOAM community, so we have created a PEMC resources page here!  More content will be added as it becomes available.

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Lecture Notes, Lectures

FCA Part 2 Refresher Course 2015 – New Trends and Tools in Airway Rescue

Herewith the presentation that Ross cobbled together for the candidates preparing for anaesthesia finals, to give an idea of the trends and new tools in airway management at the current time.  Mostly pictures, but the lecture notes (with all the references) can be downloaded as a PDF here:

New Tools and Trends in Airway Rescue – UCTP2ARC 2015

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