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Airway Management in Penetrating Neck Trauma (21 Mar 2023)
This program aims to improve the management of penetrating neck injuries, and includes formulating a plan for anaesthetic management, recognising clinical findings and appropriate intubation methods.
Assessing Whether Quantitative Neuromuscular Blockade Monitoring Should Be the Standard of Care (28 Apr 2023)
The goal of this program is to improve quantitative monitoring of neuromuscular blockade.
Creative Approaches to the Difficult Airway (Aug 14, 2022)
This program aims to improve the management of the difficult airway using validated and novel techniques.
Emerging Concepts and Controversies in Pediatric Anesthesia (28 Jul 2022)
This program aims to improve the management of pediatric anesthesia and better manage complications with difficult airways in pediatric patients.
An Introduction to Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (14 Sep 2022)
This program aims to improve extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) knowledge, and includes appropriate cannulation strategies in patients receiving ECMO.
Management of the Difficult Airway in Children (14 Jul 2020)
The following program aims to improve the management of difficult airways in children. Areas of interest include identifying airway management issues likely to occur in children and using clinical devices to manage pediatric airways.
Managing the Pediatric Airway (28 May 2021)
This program aims to improve the management of airways in paediatric patients, and includes recognising risk factors, treating laryngospasm, and selecting appropriate endotracheal tubes.
Mechanical Power in Intraoperative Ventilation (21Jun 2022)
This program is to improve the management of intraoperative ventilation, and includes postoperative pulmonary complications caused by mechanical ventilation.
Navigating the Shared Airway (28 Jan 2022)
This program focuses on practice principles to improve performance during esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and shared airway procedures.
Pediatric Airway Management: When One Size Does Not Fit All (7 Feb 2022)
This program aims to improve the management of pediatric airways, especially for pediatric patients at risk of difficult intubation.
Perioperative Tracheostomies: Addressing the Holes in Our Knowledge of Airway Management (7 Dec 2022)
This program aims to improve the management of patients with tracheostomy by providing safe and appropriate anesthesia for tracheostomy procedures.
Rapid-sequence Induction in Patients with Trauma (7 Nov 2021)
This program aims to improve outcomes of anesthesia in patients with trauma, and includes reverse neuromuscular blockade through the appropriate use of sugammadex.
Surprise Difficult Airways in Remote Locations (28 Jun 2022)
This program aims to improve the success rates of intubation performed in remote locations. It also considers the effects of anatomic factors when choosing a rescue technique for a patient with a difficult airway.
Updates to American Society of Anesthesiologists' Difficult Airway Guidelines (28 Jan 2023)
This program aims to improve management of a difficult airway.
Ventilator Management in the Operating Room (14 Nov 2022)
This program aims to improve management of patients on the ventilator in the operating room, and includes strategies for early ventilator management of the critically ill.

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Podcasts

Recommended podcasts are listed below. Additional information about podcasts can be found on the Podcasts library guide.

BJA podcasts

These podcasts from the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA), discuss a broad range of issues including those in perioperative and intensive care medicine. The BJA is available through the ANZCA Library Journals list.

Podcast of interest:

DAS unanticipated difficult intubation guidelines 2015 overview with Dr Chris Frerk based on this article.

Apps

Recommended apps are listed below, sorted by area. Additional information about ANZCA-subscribed/supported apps can be found on the Apps library guide.

DAS App (Difficult Airway Society)
The app contains the DAS guidelines for difficult intubation, DAS extubation guidelines and Paediatric airway guidelines. The obstetric guideline will be added once it is officially published.
DAS App (iOS/Apple)
DAS App (Android/Google)

the difficult airway app (AMEC)
The Difficult Airway App™ guides the user quickly and easily through key algorithms, predictors of the difficult airway and the step-by-step approach to RSI taught in The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency™.
the difficult airway app (iOS/Apple)
the difficult airway app (Android/Google)

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