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Final Thoughts
Summary of Week 5 and the Course
Congratulations. You have completed Airway Matters. Well, thank you very much for joining us over the last five weeks and for your contributions to discussions, polls, and quizzes. It really made a difference in making this a very interactive learning experience. We hope this course has been a valuable resource and that you’ll be able to use and apply what you’ve learned to improve safety in airway management and, ultimately, the outcomes of your patients. It’s certainly been a pleasure from our point of view to discuss some airway matters with you. We have covered an incredible amount in the last five weeks.
You have discussed the key learning points and recommendations from the NAP4 study, the role of capnography, and the importance of human factors and ergonomics. You’ve also learned how to assess the airway and how a look at the resources available to help you develop a safe management strategy to deal with the expected and unexpected difficult airway in a variety of clinical scenarios– Patients with tracheotomies, children, pregnant women, obese patients, and the critically ill. Importantly, you discussed the need for patients involvement and multidisciplinary communication and planning when sharing the airways. We hope this course is one small step to improving patient outcomes and safety across the globe and it’s increased your interest and knowledge of safe airway management.
Please do share this knowledge with your colleagues and teams, so we can make airway management better everywhere.
Congratulations: you have completed Airway Matters! Thank you very much for joining us over the last five weeks and for your contributions to discussions, polls and quizzes, which really made a difference in making this a very interactive learning experience. We hope this course has been a useful resource for you, and that you’ll be able to use and apply what you’ve learnt, to improve safety in airway management and, ultimately, improve the outcomes for your patients. It’s been a real pleasure to discuss some Airway Matters with you!You have learnt an extraordinary amount over the last five weeks. Looking back at the course aims you should now be able to:
Please do share this knowledge with your colleagues and teams so we can make airway management safe everywhere. Ultimately we hope this will be one small step to improving patient outcomes and patient safety across the globe. We will be running the course again in a few months time: please encourage your whole team to sign up now.
- Improve your strategies to deal with the unexpected difficult airway and explore guidelines to use in special circumstances.
- Identify the key learning points and recommendations from the 4th National Audit Project (NAP4) on major complications of airway management in the UK.
- Apply the principles of multidisciplinary planning, communication and teamwork in shared airways interventions.
- Describe the technical and non-technical aspects of safe airway management for patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery, and the critically ill.
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