Course Details
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 four hours of 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.
Lectures:
Paediatric stridor
Recognition of the difficult paediatricairway
Anaesthetic management and basictechniques
Extubation, postoperative care and documentation
Workshops:
Case scenarios
Emergency airway management and needle cricothyroidotomy
Learning skills in the use of the fibre-optic laryngoscope
Fibre-optic laryngoscopic techniques with conventional airway methods
LMA and fibre-optic laryngoscopic techniques
Video / Indirect laryngoscopy / Conventional non-fibre-optic techniques
Attachments
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Course Dates
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Contact Details
Dr Karen Medlock: [email protected]
Course Fee
£220