Name: The Balfour Airway Day 2025 – Remote and Rural Advanced Airway Workshop
Date: Friday, 23 May 2025
Duration(Days): 1
Accreditation : 6 CPD points approved by the Difficult Airway Society
Location : The Balfour Hospital, Foreland Road, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NZ
Contact email: [email protected]
Fee options:
- Not applicable
Description
The Balfour Airway Day 2025 is the remote and rural advanced airway workshop in Kirkwall in Orkney that is primarily designed for a broad range of multidisciplinary teams of healthcare providers, including junior doctors in training of various specialties, remote and rural general practitioners, anaesthetic and emergency medicine doctors and nurses from the whole UK who are wishing to refresh and update their technical skills in the advanced airway management in the remote and rural settings.
This multidisciplinary remote and rural advanced airway workshop provides intensive practical tuitions with supraglottic airway devices, videolaryngoscopes, awake tracheal intubation, surgical cricothyrotomy on animal models and manikins, remote and rural medicine airway-technical skills practised by simulation scenarios on simulation models for adult and paediatric difficult airway. There will be 4 lectures, interactive discussions and over 4 hours of practical hands-on workshops with teaching provided by national and international airway workshop faculty. The Balfour Airway Day in Orkney is provided by Dr Gray’s Airway Group and Wexham Airway Group that keep promoting multi-professional airway training opportunities in the remote communities in the North of Scotland.
List of Speakers:
Dr Tiina Tamm, Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Medicine, Wexham Park Hospital, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Slough, Berkshire, Wexham Airway Group
Dr Subrahmanyan Radhakrishna, MBBS, DA, FFARCSI, FRCA (Hon), Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, Wexham Airway Group, Past Secretary of Difficult Airway Society UK
Dr Andrew Levison, MBBS, FRCA, Consultant Anaesthetist, Wexham Park Hospital, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Slough, Berkshire, Wexham Airway Group Lead, Sport Pilot
Dave Fielding, Long Haul Captain, CRMT, Wing Factors, Human Factors in Practice
Dr Andrej Andrasovsky, Consultant Anaesthetist, NHS Grampian, Dr Gray’s Hospital, Pluscarden Road, Elgin, Moray, Dr Gray’s Airway Group Lead, EAMS Airway Teacher
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