We’re running the ever-popular AEIOU (Airway Endoscopy for Intubation and Other Uses) for the #SASA18 meeting this April in Cape Town. Places still available!
Go to www.sasacongress.com to register. You don’t need to register for the main congress to attend the workshops!
Airway Simulation Workshop – SASA, April 2018
We’re running our very popular airway simulation workhop in conjunction with the #SASA18 meeting. Spaces are still available!
Go to www.sasacongress.com to register. You don’t need to be attending the conference.
Research & Publishing Workshop
This looks fantastic – being run in collaboration between #SASA18, College of Anaesthesiologists of SA and the BJA. Discounted registration for trainees and a free BBQ at the end!
Go to www.sasacongress.com to register. You don’t need to be attending the congress to register for workshops.
Operating Theatre Management Workshop – SASA, April 2018
Doing my bit for promoting the various (and promising to be excellent) workshops for our up-and-coming national anaesthesia congress!
Go to www.sasacongress.com to register. You don’t need to be attending the congress to register for workshops.
Anaesthesia Nurses Refresher – SASA, April 2018
Not an OpenAirway event, but we’re happy to promote more education for all our colleagues! Register on www.sasacongress.com – you don’t need to register for the whole congress to attend the refresher.
Human Factors & Medical Crew Resource Management Workshop – SASA, April 2018
Not an OpenAirway event, but we can vouch for the excellence of this program, under the directorship of airway guru and emergency anaesthesia master Dr John Roos. Spaces are still available, with significant discounts for trainees. Visit www.sasacongress.com to register – you don’t need to be attending the SASA Congress to attend any of the workshops.
Should you use an introducer (bougie/stylet)?
While many of us would think this is a daft question, when we went hunting for high-quality evidence, it was not very forthcoming. Hence: science to the rescue! Watch a brief (<120 second) overview of the study:
Kirsten Kingma and Ross Hofmeyr give a #litbit overview of their paper published open-access in Emergency Medicine Australasia comparing intubation with different introducers in a simulated easy and difficult airway.
What’s the bottom line? We should always be using and introducer (bougie or stylet) when approaching a predicted difficult airway, and possibly for any emergency or rapid-sequence intubation… at least in manikins! What’s needed next? A robust RCT…
Capnography resources
Quick head’s up: If you don’t know it already, capnography is one of the most powerful tools in airway management. In the process of collating some pre-learning material for a workshop, I realised that I was gathering quite a few nice resources on capnography. To save you the time, I’ve linked them together on a new Capnography page here on OpenAirway. There are online tutorials, an interactive quiz, reference waveforms, and dynamic videos to be found. Please feel free to suggest further resources in the links!
AirwayHowTo: Clean a CMAC VL
If you work in an environment without constant access to staff to clean and process your video laryngoscopes, you need to know how to do it yourself. This quick video demonstrates pragmatic cleaning of the C-MAC VL (original and latest version) for low-risk patients. Where there is high infection risk, heavy soiling or blood on the blades, high level disinfection may be indicated.
OpenAirway presented at UCT ‘Celebrating Healthcare Education 2017’
Privilege to present the challenges and successes of creating a #FOAM resource to healthcare educators from the University of Cape Town today. A great event and great audience!
Abstract for the presentation here: An open-access airway resource