Safe Airway Society Podcasts – Details, episodes & analysis

Nick Chrimes and Adam Rehak investigate this vexing issue which is still claiming lives around the world. Using clinical scenarios and the PUMA guidelines for the prevention of unrecognised oesophageal intubation, Nick and Adam will challenge your traditional thinking, aphorisms, dogmas and behaviour, so that it doesn't happen to you.

Jon Gatward, SAS President, leads the acknowledgement of country and introduces SAS 2022.

Andy Higgs and Tim Cook describe the PUMA Prevention of Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation Guidelines and their rationale.

Tim Cook uses individual cases and analysis of the systems, processes and human factors involved in unrecognised oesophageal intubation to investigate why this tragic occurrence is still a problem around the world. He offers us some tools and advice to prevent unregognised oesophageal intubation from happening in our practice.

In this session, MICA Paramedic Matthew Humar presents a local case of unrecognised oesophageal intubation; and using this case as a reference, discusses why this is an universal issue.

Are we safe when we intubate COVID-19 patients? Are CPAP, high-flow oxygen, and intubation AGPs? Two years into this pandemic, what should we be doing at work to keep ourselves safe? An international panel of experts present their research, emerging evidence and review current practice. Andy Shrimpton presents the game-changing AERATOR studies, Forbes McGain presents his experience with the ventilation hood and Jo Simpson reviews the historical evidence regarding AGPs and her work on aerosol containment devices.

Tim Cook brings the AGP session together with an overview of airways, aerosols and healthcare worker safety.

Anaesthetists Bill Bestic and Adam Pasfield describe and demonstrate the use of ketamine for fibre-optic intubation, including via supraglottic airway devices, in patients who may be non-compliant.

Anaesthetist Adam Rehak describes and demonstrates VAFI (video-assisted fibre-optic intubation) and FARSI (fibre-optic assisted rapid sequence induction), for the management of difficult and traumatised airways.

The mission of the Project for Universal Management of Airways (PUMA) is to create a single set of airway guidelines that provide consistent guidance for airway practitioners of any discipline, in any country, in any context. Following years of development, these guidelines will be released in six separate papers over the coming months. In this session, one of the authors, Andy Higgs, presents highlights of the project.