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AirwayHub is a monthly multidisciplinary educational program in airway management, comprising a mixture of lectures by experts, mortality and morbidity and case-based discussions, literature review and a range of mannequin-based practical skills training. It will provide the forum for internal and external professional learning, development and discussion.
Topics covered will include: Difficult Airways Guidelines, Fiberoptic Intubation, Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE), obstetric airway management, paediatric airway management, virtual endoscopy, tracheostomy care, videolaryngoscopy, airway ultrasound, front of neck access, airway exchange technique, ORSIM simulator, etc.
| Faculty |
Head and Neck anaesthetics, surgical consultants and Airway fellows at UCLH/RNTNE and external invited speakers. Course Organisers: Dr Emilie Hoogenboom Martinoni, Dr Roxaan Jappie, Dr Pete Thomas |
| Programme |
All sessions run from 4.30pm-6.15pm 4.30pm-5.30pm:Walk-in skills stations (see below) 5.30pm-6.15pm: Main content 6.15pm onwards: Discussion, drinks and nibbles 22nd of February 2017
Dr Anil Patel, UCH/RNTNE: Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (Optiflow THRIVE).
Dr Toc Hussain, UCH: Case presentation; Use of Optiflow/THRIVE for maternal cardiac arrest. & Optiflow/THRIVE database on labour ward at UCLH.
29th of March 2017
Dr Imran Ahmad, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Trust: Virtual Endoscopy.
Dr Paulo Perella, UCH; Case
Presentation; Airway management of supraglottic tumour. 26th of April 2017 Theme: Tracheostomies (Speaker TBC) Dr Richard Gordon-Williams, UCH: Case presentation; H&N emergency M&M.
31st May 2017 Dr Sarah Barnett, UCH; Paediatric Airway Emergencies Case presentation: TBC.
28th of June 2017 Theme: Thoracic Anaesthesia (Speaker TBC)
26th of July 2017 TBC
27th of September 2017 Dr Tina Fergusson, UCH/RNTNE; Jet Ventilation
25th of October 2017 Dr Kevin Fong, UCH: Human Factors and Ergonomics
29th of November 2017 TBC |
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Skills Stations |
Videolaryngoscopes Fibreoptic intubation ORSIM fibreoptic airway simulator Airway Ultrasound Front-of-neck access Airway exchange catheter intubation |
| Venue |
Anaesthetics Department Podium 3, Maple Link corridor University College Hospital 235 Euston Road London NW1 2BU
Telephone 0203 447 3343
Public Transport Warren St (Victorian line or Northern Line, Charing Cross Branch) Euston Square, Euston Mainline Station |
| Contact |
Email AirwayHub uclh.airwayhub[at]gmail.com
Twitter: @AirwayHub |
| Useful Links |
Difficult Airway Society Guidelines
National Tracheostomy Safety Project
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