Airway Management in Critical Care

A review

The lecture duration is 41min.

0.5 CPD Points, 0.5 CEUs, 0.5 CME credits approval pending.
Accredited by CPDUK, CBRN and Provider Pending.

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Jonathan Gatward
Staff Specialist in ICU, Royal North Shore, Sydney, Australia
Lecture Summary

In this talk, Jon does a deep dive into airway management in critical care. Using a patient story, he examines the airway team: their experience, training and readiness, and argues that critical care practitioners may be under-prepared, under-confident or out-of-practice, with poor access to immediate senior help. He emphasises the importance of structured in-theatre airway training and refresher training for senior practitioners. He makes the case for streamlining and standardising equipment, and for the routine use of video-laryngoscopy, capnography, checklists and cognitive aids. He ends with a message of hope - that it is possible to move away from the high adverse event rates seen in NAP4 and the INTUBE studies, and improve patient safety during airway management in critically ill patients.

Target Audience

Critical Care Doctors
Experienced Critical Care Nurses
Anaesthetic Technicians
Paramedics

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

  • Understand that there is a wide variety in the seniority, training, confidence and supervision of first-responder airway operators around the world, especially at night, and that all these factors are associated with adverse events during airway management.
  • Understand the importance of checklists and cognitive aids in airway management, especially in critically ill patients
  • Understand how the organisation and standardisation of airway management training, personnel, equipment and procedures can improve patient safety

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