Welcome!  This page serves as a repository for materials and references for the 2017 Egypt Advanced Airway Workshops, hosted in Alexandria and Cairo in October 2017  with kind assistance of Karl Storz.

The reference book for the workshops is the “Core Airway Skills” manual, adapted from “Advanced Airway Management” by Dr John Roos and Dr Ross Hofmeyr.  You can download the second edition of the manual free here:

Core Airway Skills Manual – Egypt 2017 (v2.0.3)

Specific learning materials are available for each of the practical stations.  Click any of the links below to access:

Videolaryngoscopy

• As an introduction/overview, study this poster:  State of the Art –  Videolaryngoscopy (EMSSA 2013)
• Review the two videos by Dr Kenneth Greenland on understaning airway geometry
• Read this excellent article on “Redirecting Videolaryngoscopy” by George Kovacs and Adam Law to understand how to optimise the geometry of the airway when using VL
• For further information on the CMAC VL system used on the course, you can download/read the book here

Rescue intubation through supraglottic airways

Watch these videos:

There is extensive further information and useful training videos on the supraglottic airway (SGA) page here on OpenAirway

Paediatric intubation

For reference materials on paediatric difficult airways, you can download this file:

Paediatric difficult airway reference materials

For more images and ideas, browse these two presentations:

Rigid optical/video stylets

• Review the materials available on the Bonfils page here on OpenAirway
• For an indepth discussion of the topic, download/read the Piehpo & Nobbins – Bonfils Intubating Endoscope – Silver Book

To learn more about the physics and construction of endoscopic airway equipment, you can access these notes, written for the UCT FCA 1 Refresher in 2017:

Hofmeyr – Endoscopic Airway Equipment

There are many additional resources – including training videos which you can make use of to prepare for the course – available here on OpenAirway.  See the relevant page links:

• Face-mask ventilation
• Laryngoscopy & intubation
• Bonfils use
• Supraglottic airways
• Front-of-neck/surgical airway

This course would not be possible without the academic support of the Department of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, and logistical support of Karl Storz Endoscopy – thank you!