Course: Airway Matters

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 …

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 …

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 …

Why is it important for health professionals to have training in tracheostomies? In this video by the National Tracheostomy Safety Project (NTSP), we hear from the team behind the NTSP, …

In this video, Dr Imran Ahmad, as one of the Guidelines authors, takes a few moments out of his operating list to discuss the key recommendations from the DAS Guidelines …

A patient at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital very kindly agreed to be filmed having an awake tracheal intubation and has allowed us to share it here. In the video …

In this video, Dr Anil Patel demonstrates the uses of High-Flow Nasal Oxygenation and Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE). As you read in the previous article, HFNO can be …

In the case discussed in the previous step, the clinical picture is of a patient with a severely compromised upper airway due to obstruction from oedema, secondary to a neck …

Well done: you have now completed over half of the learning material in Airway Matters. This week we have discussed an often overlooked, critical phase of airway management: extubation. We …

In this section, Dr Catriona Ferguson, Consultant Anaesthetist at University College London Hospitals, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital will guide us through the recognition and management of airway …

Point of Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) has become widely available in recent years, and anaesthetists have become increasingly familiar with its use. Over the next two steps we are going to …