Please find below the abstract book from DAS ASM 2016 held at Torquay. We will also upload presentations from the meeting to this page when they are available.
| ASM Abstract book | Download |
| Welcome Dr Andrey Varvinskiy; Chair, DAS 2016 Local Organising Committee | Download |
Thursday 17 November 2016 | |
| Session 1 – DAS Professor lectures (2A01) | |
Prof Antony Wilkes (Edinburgh, UK) | Getting the evidence base on airway equipment - why, how ... and who |
Prof Ellen O’Sullivan (Dublin, Ireland) | New DAS Guidelines. Have we made the right choice? |
| Session 2 – Focus on preoperative assessment of a patient with a potentially difficult airway (1C01) | |
Associate Prof Vladimir Nekhendzy (Stanford, USA) | Nasendoscopy |
Dr Imran Ahmad (London, UK) | Virtual endoscopy - a new tool in difficult airway assessment |
Dr Michael Seltz Kristensen (Copenhagen, Denmark) | Ultrasound in difficult airway. What is new? |
| Session 3 – “So you have an idea, what is next?” Focus on innovation (1I03, 1I05) | |
Prof Dietmar Enk (Maastricht, Netherlands) | Download |
Dr Paul Baker (Auckland, New Zealand) | Focus on innovation |
Mr Darren Woodall (Torquay, UK) | Download |
| Session 4 – Obstetrics (2B02, 2B05, 3B00) | |
Prof Peter Biro (Zurich, Switzerland) | What to expect from airway in late pregnancy |
Dr Mary Mushambi (Leicester, UK) | Difficult airway guidelines in obstetrics. The aftermath |
| Session 5 – ITU (1I05, 2A01,3C00) | |
Dr Brendan McGrath (Manchester, UK) | Improving tracheostomy care – the role of the Anaesthetist |
Dr Andy Higgs (Warrington, UK) | Airway guidelines in the ITU: an update |
| Session 6 – Paediatrics (1G01, 1I01, 2A01, 2D01) | |
Dr John Fiadjoe (Philadelphia, USA) | Paediatric difficult airway database |
Dr Paul Baker (Auckland, NZ|) | Preventing and managing laryngospasm in the child |
Friday 18 November 2016 | |
| Session 7 – Top 5 Oral Abstracts presentation (1H02, 2A01, 3J02, 3J03) | |
Chair: Dr Theresa Hinde (Torquay, UK) | Top 5 Oral Abstracts presentation |
| Session 8a – DAS Annual Members Meeting | |
Chair: Dr Anil Patel, DAS President | DAS Annual Members Meeting |
| Session 8b – Sudheer Medakkar ODP session (3A01) | |
Mrs Tracy Huggins (Rugby, UK) | ODP session |
Mr Martin Brace (Torquay, UK) | ODP session |
| Session 9 – DAS research projects (3J03) | |
Prof Jaideep Pandit, DAS Scientific Officer (Oxford, UK) | Strategy for research in airway management |
Dr Subrahmanyam Radhakrishna (Coventry, UK) | Decontamination of videolaryngoscopes and flexible scopes |
| Session 10 – Videolaryngoscopy (2A01) | |
Dr Barry McGuire (Dundee, UK) | Videolaryngoscopy: where are we going? |
Prof Tim Cook (Bath, UK) | Implementing videolaryngoscopy as first choice - is it desirable, is it feasible? |
| Session 11 – SAM lecture | |
Prof Lauren Berkow (Baltimore, USA) | Multidisciplinary airway teams: how collaboration can improve communication and outcomes |
| Session 12 – Airway fellowship around the world (1H01, 1H02, 3J02) | |
Associate Prof Vladimir Nekhendzy, Clinical Associate Professor (Stanford, USA) | Stanford Head and Neck Anesthesia and Advanced Airway Management Programme |
Dr Tom Bradley (Exeter, UK) | Facing Africa: difficult airways in Ethiopia |
Dr Andrew Heard (Perth, Australia) | Airway Fellowship, Western Australia |
Dr Helen Bryant (Portsmouth, UK) | Advanced Airway Training Programme |
| The Fractured Cricoid | Download |
