Sharing the Airways
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 …
Course: Airway Matters
COVID-19 Intubation Simulation
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 …
Airway Management in the Critically Ill Patient.
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 …
Safe Tracheostomy Care
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 …
Tracheostomy: Let’s Have a Look at the Procedure
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 …
National Tracheostomy Safety Project
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, …
Awake Tracheal Intubation – DAS Guidelines
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 …
Awake Tracheal Intubation – A Demonstration
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 …
HFNO in Action
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 …
SHOUT
In this step, Dr Bonnie Kyle, Consultant Anaesthetist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, explainss what prompted the development of the cognitive tool “SHOUT” to help identify patients at risk of …
The Obstructed Airway – What to Do Whilst Waiting for Help
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 …
Completion of Week 3
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 …
Case Discussion
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 …
Airway Ultrasound
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 …
eFONA – a Training Video
In this video produced by the Difficult Airway Society (DAS), you will see a demonstration of how to perform an emergency Front of Neck Airway (eFONA) using a “scalpel-bougie-tube” technique. …
