Oxford Paediatric Difficult Airway Workshop

The Paediatric Difficult Intubation Workshop is for trainees and consultants who anaesthetise children and wish to refresh and update skills in managing children with a difficult airway. The course aims to discuss the management of the anticipated and unanticipated paediatric difficult airway. The format of the day is one of short interactive lectures, videos and four hours of hands-on small group workshops. The workshops cover care and basic use of the fibre-optic laryngoscope, modified airway and LMA access techniques using guidewires and exchange catheters.

Delegate numbers are limited to 24 places to allow maximum opportunity to interact and interrogate the faculty.

Lectures:

Paediatric stridor

Recognition of the difficult paediatricairway

Anaesthetic management and basictechniques

Extubation, postoperative care and documentation

Workshops:

Case scenarios

Emergency airway management and needle cricothyroidotomy

Learning skills in the use of the fibre-optic laryngoscope

Fibre-optic laryngoscopic techniques with conventional airway methods

LMA and fibre-optic laryngoscopic techniques

Video / Indirect laryngoscopy / Conventional non-fibre-optic techniques