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African Airway Fellowship Opportunity
African Airways is here!
After many COVID delays, the inaugural African Airways Symposium kicks off in just less than a month in Cape Town. Are you as excited as we are?
Find out more information and register for the 4-6 November 2022 meeting by visiting africanairways.org.
You can also follow the FaceBook event and/or follow @AfricanAirway on Twitter to stay up to date with the latest news.
EuroAnaesthesia 2022: Paediatric VL – Quo Vadis?
Herewith my presentation in short format, as well as a link to download selected references. You can watch a recorded version below. Enjoy!
For a similar and original take on the subject, see also the great article written by Dr Jamie Peyton in the January 2022 edition of the Difficult Airway Society’s E-Zine.
IAMM 2021: Access the International Airway Management Meeting content onliNe
This year’s International Airway Management Meeting was fully online, thanks for COVID, but SARS-CoV-2 certainly gave us lots to talk about. The meeting, held over 21-22 May, brought together 44 international experts for online presentations and very robust discussions, and had nearly 50 000 views online. The good news (if you missed it) is that the content is still fully available as an online recording (over 10 hours worth!), which you can access here:
IAMM 2021 Online Congress Recording
The full program is below. You can watch the recording on my talk on “COVID Airway Management: Principles, Projects, Pet Ideas and Proper Evidence” below or by following this link.
COVID-19 Airway Management Resource
Yip, it’s on all of our minds right now. Want a one-stop shop for airway management (and other anaesthesia) resources for COVID-19? It’s here on OpenAirway: OpenAirway.org/covid-19-airway
A couple of examples of great work coming from the webs:
Get more and download the PDFs from the link: OpenAirway.org/covid-19-airway
Airway ultrasound page launched
New content – we’ve added a static page to OpenAirway to build up a resource of #FOAM content on airway ultrasound. There is quite a lot out there on the great big interwebs, but this should form a kernel of good stuff to get you up to speed, or learn a few nuggets. Please comment on the page if you have additional sources or ideas to suggest. You can find the Airway Ultrasound page here.
ESA2018 “Meet the Expert” – Burns Airway Management
Herewith my 10-minute “Meet the Expert” presentation for the 2018 Euroanaesthesia congress. Click on the image to access. Selected references available in the zip file below.
Collaborative ENT/Anaesthesia ‘Shared Airway’ Workshop
We’re hosting this in Cape Town in April. It’s going to be the first workshop if it’s kind on the continent, and perhaps even in the world: a combined cadaver and manikin simulation workshop, featuring senior anaesthesia and ENT trainees and specialists working together to solve challenging airway problems in real time. This will be reinforced by expert didactic input from local leaders in the field. Places are very limited, but expect feedback and images/video here on OpenAirway.
#FOAM? SMACC? What?
If you’ve found OpenAirway by search or accident, and the concept of #FOAM (Free, Open-Access Meducation) is new to you, then you’ll find the following video enlightening. The SMACC (Social Media And Critical Care) meeting is the yearly gathering of #FOAM enthusiasts, although it’s spiritual home, arguably, is within the ether of the Internet. OpenAirway was proud to be represented at SMACC this year in Dublin – truly an opportunity to interact, connect and be inspired by the best minds in acute and critical care from all disciplines.