Safe Airway Society Podcasts

David Anderson leads an interactive discussion on the airway related escapades of a patient from the roadside to the ICU. 

Lachlan Miles takes us on a wild ride through the airway literature - mine the methods!

Matt James wecomes delegates to SAS 2025 Noosa. Adam Rehak gives an entertaining talk on the history of SAS.

With the needle vs scalpel debate still raging on (at least in Australasia) SAS bravely decides to avoid the issue. Instead, Nick Chrimes leads an expert panel through the relative merits of different scalpel techniques for neck rescue. He is joined by Andy Higgs, Thy Do, Scott Weingart, Reza Nouraei, David Vokes and Adam Rehak.

Linda Beckmann, the chair of the ANZCA/ASA/NZSA Airway Special Interest Group, gives an update about the group's activities.

Adam Rehak tells a cautionary tale of misadventure after the AFL Grand Final to demonstrate the complexities of airway injury. An interprofessional panel drawn from the audience guides us through the challenges of threatened airway management from the point of injury to discharge from hospital.

Anoushka Perera leads a session on the physiologically difficult airway. Jared Mosier, author of the seminal 2015 paper on the topic, is joined by Kirstin Fraser and Chris McLenachan on the panel.

SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2024.

Andrew Robinson leads a discussion on this higly topical and somewhat controversial topic. Tim Cook, David Story, Erin Foulsham, Ben Olesnicky, Ruth Parsell and Phil Visser make up the interprofessional panel.

Internationally renowned human factors expert Victoria Brazil describes how a group of highly functioning individuals can become a high performance airway team.

SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2023.

Recorded 19th Jun 2023 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel . In this episode we go back to basics to discuss the what is arguably the most important and difficult upper airway technique to master - facemask ventilation. Host Nicholas Chrimes is joined by Pierre Bradley & Joanna Simpson to discuss why facemask ventilation is importa...

Recorded 17th January 2021 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel . Use of a videolaryngoscope with a hyperangulated blade has the potential to allow easy intubation of patients in whom direct laryngoscopy might be difficult or impossible. However, learning the correct technique, which varies markedly from the technique for direct lar...

Recorded 12th January 2021 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel . Despite video laryngoscopy now being a widely available tool for airway management, airway practitioners continue to debate its role, its benefit over direct laryngoscopy and the optimal technique for its use. Host Nicholas Chrimes is joined by airway experts Tim Cook...

Recorded 9th Nov 2020 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel . COVID-19 has challenged the way we conduct airway management. As well as being a source of anxiety, this has also pushed us to consider new approaches to our practice.   In the first episode of Airwaves, host Nicholas Chrimes asks an expert panel "In relation to airway man...

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 ventil...

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 hig...