Course: Airway Matters

The current global crisis caused by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic is causing enormous harm to the whole population: physically, psychologically, socially and financially. We stand in solidarity with …

In this video Professor Tim Cook, Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist at Royal United Hospitals Bath, and Joint Lead of the 4th National Audit Project (NAP4), presents the key learning points …

The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) have created this video “Capnography: No Trace = Wrong Place”, presented by Professor Tim Cook. It has a …

What makes airway management safe? That’s the big question that this course will help you answer. Safety in airway management has greatly improved in recent decades; in this interview with …

In this video interview, we meet Dr Barry McGuire, current President of the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) and Consultant Anaesthetist at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School. He talks about how …

In this video by Dr Arndt Melzer and Dr Riaz Aziz, we explore the experience of airway management at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC). The facility is located in the city …

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 …

We are now reaching the end of Airway Matters. Before we finish the course, we would like to summarise what we have learnt over the last five weeks by answering …

The worldwide prevalence of obesity is increasing and airway management in the obese patient can be challenging. In the next two steps, Dr Harry Thompson, Fellow Representative for the Society …

In this step Dr Nuala Lucas, Consultant Obstetric Anaesthetist at Northwick Park Hospital and anaesthetic co-lead for MEMBRACE-UK, Dr Rosie May, Obstetric Anaesthesia Fellow, and Dr Abi Richardson, Consultant Obstetric …

As we discussed in the previous steps, good teamwork and communication are essential for safe airway management. In this video we will see examples from three clinical settings where the …

This video by Dr Arnold Somasunderam and Dr Rose English, trainee anaesthetists at UCLH, demonstrates a simulation of an intubation in a patient with COVID-19. The intubation checklist and guidelines …

In this video, Dr Andy Higgs, Consultant Anaesthetist at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and author of the DAS Intubation Guidelines for the Critically Ill tells us why …

In this video, Mr Guri Sandhu, Consultant ENT Surgeon at Charing Cross and The Royal Brompton Hospitals, demonstrates the surgical procedure for the formation of a tracheostomy. When watching the …

Multidisciplinary team involvement is particularly relevant for the care of patients with tracheostomies and laryngectomies, as they tend to have more complex and evolving needs and a longer length of …