Difficult Airway Society - Airway Courses

The Difficult Airway Workshop is for trainees and Consultants wishing to refresh and update skills in managing patients with a difficult airway. The course aims to discuss the management of the anticipated and unanticipated scenarios, including can't-intubate-can't-ventilate. There are lectures, videos and interactive discussions and over 3 hours of hands-on workshops to reinforce the theory and refine manual dexterity.

The workshops cover a wide range of fibreoptic assisted techniques, ILMA and trans-tracheal access. There is a high faculty to delegate ratio (1:3) to allow maximum opportunity to interact and interrogate the faculty. Included in the registration fee are refreshments, a course manual and lunch.

Course Organisers: Dr Mansukh Popat and Dr Stuart Benham. Registration fee £150. 5 CEPD points. Cheques to 'Oxford Difficult Airway Group'.

The workshop will be held in the Mary Sunley Building, St Catherine's College. All enquiries to Marguerite Scott, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics. John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU

Course organisers Dr Mansukh Popat and Dr Stuart Benham.

This is not an airway workshop. This is a course to empower trainers with the knowledge and practices to optimise airway training in the face of reduced trainee hours and training opportunities. At a time when airway training is under such pressures, we need to develop radical training methods which optimise every training opportunity to equip our trainees with the appropriate airway management skills.

Experienced Faculty will cover:

• Basic airway training (SHO)
• How to assess airway competency
• Advanced airway training (SpR1-4)
• The use of simulators and workshops
• Where do airway workshops fit in?
• Teaching fibreoptic intubations on each other
• The College curriculum - a work in progress
• Is there capacity to deliver airway training?
• Timetabling airway training blocks for SHO/SpR1
• Advanced airway fellowships SpR 4/5.

Course fee £150. 5 CPD points. Cheques to 'Oxford Difficult Airway Group'.

The Paediatric Difficult Intubation Workshop is for trainees and consultants who anaesthetise children and wish to refresh and update skills in managing children with a difficult airway. The course aims to discuss the management of the anticipated and unanticipated paediatric difficult airway. The format of the day is one of short interactive lectures, videos and hands-on small group workshops. The workshops cover care and basic use of the fibre-optic laryngoscope, modified airway and LMA access techniques using guidewires and exchange catheters.

Delegate numbers are limited to 24 places to allow maximum opportunity to interact and interrogate the faculty.

Early booking recommended. Course fee (includes lunch and refreshments) £220. 5 CEPD points.

Cheques payable to 'Paediatric Anaesthesia & Resuscitation Fund'.

Course Organisers: Dr David G Mason, Dr Mansukh T Popat, Dr Stuart W Benham.

Course Fee: £400 and only 12 places available.

Course Venue: Cuschieri Skills Centre, Level 5, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY

See the website www.dundee.ac.uk/surgicalskills for further details and online registration.

Course Fee: £325 and only 12 places available.

Course Venue: Cuschieri Skills Centre, Level 5, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY. See the website www.dundee.ac.uk/surgicalskills for further details and online registration.

Northumbria
Airway
Workshop
(NAW)

This course is aimed at anaesthetists of all grades and is accredited for 10 CPD points.

The FIRST DAY will consist of lectures in the morning. After lunch the delegates will learn the technique of fibreoptic intubation through the oral and nasal route, use of the ILMA, LMA and Aintree catheter on a mannequin.

On the SECOND DAY delegates will perform at least one fibreoptic intubation on an anaesthetised patient under supervision. Delegates will also have the opportunity to use other difficult airway management devices on mannequins e.g. ILMA, Glidescope, C-Trach, Bullard scope, AirTraq, McGrath scope. There will be a station devoted to cricothyrotomy.

The course fee is £300 and places are limited to 12 delegates per course.

The course website is www.northumbria-airwayworkshop.nhs.uk

Contact by telephone - 0191 293 2519 or email [email protected] or [email protected]

8th December 2006

2007 Dates
12th January
23rd March
18th May
20th July
7th September
9th November

This one-day awake fibreoptic intubation course is one in which the delegates are the subjects. Maximum numbers are 4 participants and 2 observers. The morning consists of lectures, mannequin and model practice followed by supervised endoscopy and intubation in the afternoon.

The current cost is £175 for participants and £150 for observers.

The Consultant in charge is Dr Andrew Eldridge (telephone anaesthetic department 01206 742349) or [email protected].

Awarded 5 CPD points by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

All details found on the excellent website www.fibreopticintubation.co.uk which has all the latest information on course content, dates, cost etc.

University College
London Hospitals
Fibreoptic Skills
Training Course

Wed 19th Nov 2008
Wed 17th Dec 2008
Wed 28th Jan 2009
Wed 25th Mar 2009
Wed 27th May 2009
Wed 29th Jul 2009
Wed 30th Sep 2009
Wed 25th Nov 2009

Dr Simon Clarke
[email protected]

This one day course, in which the candidates perform fibreoptic endoscopy on each other, is specifically designed for anaesthetists who wish to gain confidence in topical anaesthesia of the airway and to improve their manual dexterity in airway endoscopy..

The course includes video demonstration of topical anaesthesia of the airway and fibreoptic intubation. There is also hands-on practice on endoscopy trainer and manikin. Then the delegates move on to a monitored environment to set up the equipment, perform topical airway anaesthesia and fibreoptic airway endoscopy on each other under consultant supervision.

The course usually runs once a month on a Wednesday morning at the University College London hospital (UCLH). The course is limited to a maximum of 4 delegates (and one or two observers)and currently costs £75 for trainees (£150 for consultants).

For more details and application form visit www.ucl.ac.uk/anaesthesia/meetings or email Dr. Simon Clarke at [email protected]

The faculty: Drs. Simon Clarke, Raman Verma and Damon Kamming.

King's College Hospital Difficult Airway Workshop

20th June 2008
12th December 2008
11th Feb 2009
10th July 2009
11th December 2009

Jay Dasan
Anaesthetic Department
Kings College Hospital
London SE5 9RS
Tel: 020 3299 3154
[email protected]

This one day course is aimed at Anaesthetists of all grades and is accredited for 5 CPD points.

The workshop consist of 10 stations and is designed to teach, or refresh your experience in, using basic and advanced equipment in the management of anticipated and unexpected difficult intubation.

Stations are mainly designed for hands-on practice and include:

• Oral and nasal fibreoptic intubation
• Intubation through LMA, ILMA and Proseal
• Trans- tracheal Jet ventilation
• Cricothyrodotomy on mannequin and on pig's trachea
• C-trach, Air-Traq and Video laryngoscope
• Paediatric airway
• SimMan simulation
• Oxford box and DAS Algorithm

Course director; Dr Jay Dasan contact on above number or [email protected]

Places are limited and early booking is recommended.

Course fee: £50 for South Thames trainees, £100 for consultants and trainees from other regions. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.

The faculty: Dr Jay Dasan and others from South Thames

www.pawscourse.co.uk

The PAWS course is an intensive one day course focusing on the assessment and management of the anticipated or unanticipated difficult airway. Management is based on the DAS algorithms and the core skills involved. It includes fibreoptic techniques,the use of Proseal and Intubating LMA, jet ventilation and cricothyoidotomy.

The day is split between a series of short lectures and case discussions in the morning, followed by several workshop stations and a live fibreoptic demonstration after lunch.

Portsmouth Airway Workshop Course was started in 2001 and has become a acknowedged national course with an excellent reputation and is recognized for CME points.

Simulation Centre, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, UK;
Tel: 01223 348100;
Fax: 01223 217237;
Email: [email protected] Web Site: www.addenbrookes-pgmc.org.uk

This is one-day course designed for the Anaesthetist who wishes to develop their skills in managing difficult airway and introduces delegates to difficult airway equipment with the aim of the course to update and inform participants of effective management of airways, appropriate use of airway technology, emergency airway strategies and the use and handling FOI.

Workstations include Endoscopy skills, Endoscopy FOI oral/nasal, Intubating LMA/LMA/C-Trac, McGrath Video Laryngosope, Laryngoscope Mc-Coy /Straight, Trans-tracheal Ventilation, Glide-scope Video Laryngoscope, AirTraq Optical Laryngosope and SIM Man simulation.

Accredited for 5 CPD points

Clinical Education Centre, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley
Contact: Christine Aston Tel: 01384244076 e mail: [email protected]
Course Organisers:
Dr Nicola Calthorpe e mail: [email protected]
Dr Nahla Farid e mail: [email protected]

A one day course in advanced airway management

Programme:

• Lecture on managing the difficult airway- DAS guidelines
• Lecture on airway adjuncts
• Video on asleep fibreoptic intubation
• Skill stations
  • ILMA
  • Intubating aids
  • Can’t intubate, can’t ventilate
  • Manujet
• Asleep Fibreoptic intubation - Basic / Advanced (station ratio 2:1)
• Scenario discussion

Skills Lab - John Lister Postgraduate Centre, Wexham Park Hospital
Wexham Street, Slough
Berkshire SL2 4HL

Contact: Carolyne O'Neill
Team Leader, Anaesthetics Dept,
Direct Line: 01753 633185
Direct Fax: 01753 634460
email: Carolyne.O'[email protected]

This workshop is geared towards trainees wishing to refresh and update skills in airway management. There are lectures, interactive discussions and over 4 hours of hands-on workshop training. The course provides intensive practical tuition on manikin and animal models.

There is a highly experienced faculty who have been conducting very popular airway workshops in Hungary and Estonia and Wexham too!

Bristol Medical Simulation Centre
Contact: Gerri Whitbrow
0117 3420108
email: [email protected]
Cost £150

This workshop-based day course is designed to improve your confidence and competence at managing unanticipated difficult airway situations.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Difficult Airway Society algorithms
• Intubating fibre-optic bronchoscope
• Intubating laryngeal mask airway (iLMA)
• Asleep fibreoptic intubation via LMA and Berman airway
• Emergency cricothyroidotomy
• Retrograde intubation, alternative blade intubation and Proseal laryngeal mask airway

Torbay Hospital
Torquay, TQ2 7AA
South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust
[email protected]
01803 654311

A one day course made up of:

• a combination of lectures
• skill stations including fibreotic scope practice on mannequins and boxex
• intubating laryngeal masks, surgical airways, jet ventilation
• a live fibreoptic show!!

Torbay Hospital
Torquay, TQ2 7AA
South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust
[email protected]
01803 654311

Following on from the Friday’s Difficult Airway Course, this is a practical training course teaching awake fibreoptic endoscopy of the airway under local anaesthesia using course delegates as subjects – places limited to three delegates

Approved for 4 CEPD points
For further information please email or call us.

Torbay Hospital
Torquay, TQ2 7AA
South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust
[email protected]
01803 654311

This course is aimed at ODPs, Nurses and Paramedics who deal with Airway management. Topics covered will include

• Short lectures
• Scenario based simulation
• Full afternoon of hands on practical sessions including:
• Various Difficult Airway adjuncts
• Care and handling of fibre-scope

Course fee = £50 inc. lunch -Sponsored by Natasha Billington-Martin from Abbott
Organised by Dr Sudheer Medakkar, Anaesthetist Martin Brace, Senior ODP Dave Brown, ODP, Jason Melville Head ODP.

The Leicester "Difficult Airway Day” is held annually on the 3rd Thursday in June since 2001, and attended by up to 96 delegates (trainees and career grade anaesthetists from all over the U.K. and some from abroad).
The current format is one lecture followed by 12 hands on workshop stations.
Funds raised are used to buy training equipments and to sponsor interested trainees from Leicester to attend and present at DAS annual scientific meetings.

Practical Sessions to Include

• Nasal Fibreoptic Intubation
• Oral Fibreoptic Intubation
• Dexter Endoscopy Trainer
• Airtraq Disposable Optical Laryngoscope
• Intubating LMA
• Oxford Box and Tracheobronchial Tree
• Awake Fibreoptic Intubation
• Simulator (Airman)
• LMA and Aintree Intubating Catheter
• Double Lumen Tube
• Cannula Cricothyroidotomy and Transtracheal Ventilation
• Percutaneous Tracheostomy
• Optimising Direct Laryngoscopy

5 CPD points applied for from the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Registration fee: £120 inc Lunch and Refreshments
Course Directors: Dr M Mushambi and Dr P Ali, Consultant Anaesthetists

For details please visit www.intubateme.co.uk