Safe Airway Society Podcasts

David Anderson describes the current state of play with airway management in the prehospital setting. There are important differences between airway management in the prehospital environment and airway management in hospital. Prehospital intubation has been practiced for over 50 years and continues to evolve, with many techniques and procedures devised from prehospital use finding their way into E...

David Brewster describes the current state of play with airway management in the critical care setting, including a summary of the INTUBE study and the Safe Airway Society guidelines for airway management in COVID-19 patients.

ENT surgeon Georgie Harris and anaesthetist Drew Heffernan describe how they use high flow nasal oxygen to achieve tubeless airway surgery.

In this not-to-be-missed interactive session our hosts, Adam Rehak and Gerri Khong walk you through the good, the bad and the ugly of human factors in airway management. Using video footage of a highly realistic (tachycardia inducing) simulated airway emergency, the multi-stage case discussion canvases both audience responses and the input of a panel of human factors experts: David Brewster, Brook...

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

This session examines the psychological impact of critical airway incidents and explores processes to support resilience and wellbeing in teams dealing with adverse outcomes. Register for SAS 2022!

A significant proportion of serious adverse airway events occur at extubation. In this session, an expert interprofessional panel emphasises that the timing, location and method of extubation requires careful consideration. Register for SAS 2022!

Trading off competing risks can sometimes lead to "Perfect Plan Paralysis". There may not be a perfect primary plan. In any case, all techniques have a failure rate. In this session, an expert interprofessional panel emphasises the critical importance of committing to and communicating a complete airway strategy: a coordinated series of plans including sequential contingencies for failure. Registe...

Barriers to performing advanced airway management in the emergency department in Australia and New Zealand result in many unstable patients being transferred to the operating theatre at considerable risk. In this session, an expert interprofessional panel explores what is possible with existing resources, how we can buy time, and compares the ANZ system to that of other countries.

In this session, an expert interprofessional panel examines the decision making around how, when and where we manage patients presenting to the emergency department with evolving airway obstruction. Again the importance of thinking beyond patient factors is highlighted. Register for SAS 2022!

What are the priorities and challenges in the pre-hospital management of the patient with a threatened airway? In this session, an expert interprofessional panel explores the impact of location, environment and skillset on decision making in airway management. Register for SAS 2022!

Finding opportunities to learn or maintain airway skills, especially those infrequently encountered during clinical care, can be challenging, and even more so during a pandemic! In this session an expert interprofessional panel explores how to maximise learning opportunities and stresses the importance of being a lifelong learner in airway management. Register for SAS 2022!

Airway management is a team sport. All members, not just the airway operator, are integral to safe and effective airway management. What teamwork skills are crucial to airway management and how do we teach them? In this session, an interprofessional expert panel discusses how we can optimise team training, with reference to both pre-hospital and in-hospital training programs. Register now for SAS...

Considering the complexities of our era, how do we best approach the acquisition and maintenance of airway skills? In this session, an interprofessional panel explores the teaching of core and specialised procedural airway skills to novices, trainees and experienced clinicians. Register for SAS 2022!

SAS President Jon Gatward and Coda founder Roger Harris discuss the program for the upcoming SAS 2022 meeting on September 11th 2022 and the SAS/Coda Airway Workshops on Sept 12th 2022 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre BOOK NOW!  

Intensive Care Paramedic and SAS Board member Matthew Humar interviews Dr John Glasheen, Aeromedical Retrieval Physician, about his study: Successful endotracheal intubation following a failed first attempt during aeromedical retrieval ( Emergency Medicine Journal   2020; 37: 314-8).