Leicester Difficult Airway Day

The Leicester "Difficult Airway Day” is held annually on the 3rd Thursday in June since 2001, and attended by up to 64 delegates (trainees and career grade anaesthetists from all over the U.K. and some from abroad).The current format is one lecture followed by 12 hands on workshop stations. Funds raised are used to buy training equipments and to sponsor interested trainees from Leicester to attend and present at DAS annual scientific meetings.Practical Sessions to Include

• Oxford Box and Tracheobronchial Tree
• Nasal Fibreoptic Intubation
• Oral Fibreoptic Intubation
• Awake Fibreoptic Intubation
• Simulator (Airman)
• Intubating LMA
• LMA and Aintree Intubating Catheter
• Double Lumen Tube
• Cannula Cricothyroidotomy and Trans-tracheal Ventilation
• Non-technical Skills
• Video Laryngoscope
• Optimising Direct Laryngoscopy

5 CPD points applied for from the Royal College of Anaesthetists Registration fee: £150 inc Lunch and Refreshments Course Directors: Dr M Mushambi and Dr P Ali, Consultant Anaesthetists Course Programme & Application form