This page contains (links in title):
Clinical pearls
BJA education articles
Recent guidelines, key websites and resources
Clinical pearls
Airway assessment and strategy
BJA education articles
Last 5 years of BJA Ed/ATOTW Articles (A-Z)
Airway assessment
Airway management
- High flow nasal oxygenation
- Human factors in complex airway management
- Non invasive ventilation in the perioperative period
Head and neck surgery
- Major middle ear surgery
- Head and neck cancer surgery
- Elective laryngectomy
- Tubeless field surgery
- Thyroid surgery
Airway emergencies and difficult airways
- Airway obstruction
- Emergency FONA
- Foreign body inhalation
- Iatrogenic airway injury
- Smoke inhalation injury
- Management of an inhaled foreign body in a child
- Postoperative management of the difficult airway
- Tracheostomy management
Paediatric airways
- Laryngeal clefts
- Paediatric adenotonsillectomy 1
- Paediatric adenotonsillectomy 2
- Paediatric airway infections
- Place of RSI in paediatric anaesthesia
- Perioperative management of child with tracheostomy
Recent guidelines or key articles
Guidelines:
- Airway management in ICU (FICM)
- DAS guidelines for management of the unanticipated difficult intubation
- DAS guidelines for extubation after difficult intubation
- DAS guidelines for paediatric difficult airway
- DAS guidelines for obstetric difficult airway
Key websites/apps/resources:
- Difficult Airway Society DAS website. They do have an app but it is still in development. They also run a SMART anaesthesia course for anaesthetist/ODP teams in Coventry.
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ Airway Management Course
- Airway Ex is a great App where you can practice awake tracheal intubation skills with a bronchoscope – Apple devices only as far as we can find
- ANZCA uses ‘The Vortex Approach’ for human factors related to airway management
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