12th November Workshop Programme

PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE ONLY 128 PLACES AVAILABLE FOR WEDNESDAY’S WORKSHOPS –
THE PLACES WILL BE GIVEN ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS
Early booking is strongly advised (see “Registration Page”)
Wednesday 12th November 2008: Airway Workshops

The format of our workshops will be very different from previous years. They are focused on understanding the mechanisms of difficult intubation and why one or more airway devices can be more appropriate for any given clinical situation. The workshops will show you how to –

  1. Use bespoke problem lists to objectively assess a patient with a known difficult airway.
  2. Select THE best airway device to deal with that patient’s particular problems.
  3. Appreciate all the known errors relevant to the device and the difficult airway under consideration and plan to avoid them (‘Contingency Planning’).

In the morning, delegates will be introduced to the assessment method as well as being taught how to competently perform key airway manoeuvres such as -

  1. Direct Laryngoscopy (including straight blades, bougies etc).
  2. Indirect Laryngoscopy (Glidescope, Airtraq etc).
  3. Awake Fibreoptic Intubation.
  4. Intubation via an LMA.
  5. Bonfils.
  6. Cricothyroidotomy / Jet Ventilation.

In the afternoon, delegates will practice matching these basic skills to various simulations of patients with anticipated difficult airways (common and rare pathologies to demonstrate the relevance of the method).

These simulation workshops contain a wealth of clinical material (videos, photos, scans etc) and have proved extremely popular in our own previous meetings. Delegates will receive a course manual in advance of the workshops.

To ensure small group sizes (1:4 faculty/delegate ratio) participants will be strictly limited (128 max).

AIRWAY WORKSHOP TIMETABLE
WEDNESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 2008

08.00-08.30 Registration
08.30-09.00 Lecture 1: A new approach to the anticipated difficult airway
09.00-11.00 Workshops 1 & 2: Competency with airway devices
11.00-11.30 Tea & Coffee Break
11.30-12.30 Workshop 3: Competency with airway devices
12.30-13.00 Lecture 2: Remifentanil and awake intubation
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Workshop 4: Competency with airway devices
15.00-16.00 Workshop 5: Difficult airway simulations
16.00-16.30 Tea & Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Workshop 6: Difficult airway simulations
17.30-18.00 Lecture 3: Postoperative care issues
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18.00 Close of Workshops