A regional airway anaesthesia meeting spanning the hospitals in Merseyside and the Northwest of England (Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire). An open collaborative that facilitates multi-centre projects, networking, shared practice, and ideas within the region. Educational hot topics related to airway, airway related debate topic, regional audit and quality improvement projects, regional mortality and morbidity cases that relate to the airway.

Organisers: Bisanth Batuwitage, Rebekka Konig, Simon Mercer, Marysia Cywinski

Approved for 5 CPD points by the Royal College of Anaesthetists

08:30 Welcome and introduction: Dr Bisanth Batuwitage, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Airway updates
08:30 - 09:00 Obesity and the airway: Dr Euan Shearer, consultant anaesthetist and medical director of Phoenix Health, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

09:00 - 09:30 Paediatric airway: Dr Richard Craig, consultant paediatric anaesthetist, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

09:30 - 10:00 Non-iatrogenic airway trauma: Dr Peter Groom, consultant anaesthetist, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

10:00 - 10:30 Obstetric airway: Professor Mary Mushambi, DAS Professor of anaesthesia and
airway management, Glenfield General Hospital

10:40 - 10:45 BREAK

Session 2: Airway Mastery

10:45 - 11:15 Airway ultrasound:  Dr Tom Miller, consultant anaesthetist, Liverpool University Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust

11:15 - 11:45 Human factors in airway management:  Dr Simon Mercer, consultant anaesthetist, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

11:45 - 12:15 Head and neck anaesthesia masterclass: Professor Peter Charters, DAS professor of anaesthesia and airway management, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

12:15 - 12:30 POSTER PRESENTATIONS

12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH  (Industry presentations)

Session 3: Hot topics
13:30 - 14:00 A videolaryngoscope should be the first line device -what is the president’s view? :
Dr Barry McGuire, President of the Difficult Airway Society, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee

14:00 - 14:30 Can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate - anything new?:  Dr James Dinsmore, consultant anaesthetist, Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust

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14:30 - 15:00 Sustainable airway management - time to go green?: Dr Annette Cooper, consultant anaesthetist, Wirral University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

15:00 - 15:15 BREAK

Session 4: Covid session

15:15 - 15:45 Covid intubation and ventilation strategies: Dr Ali Hall, consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

15:45 - 16:15 The global impact of Covid-19 on head and neck cancer surgery: Professor Richard Shaw, University of Liverpool, consultant head and neck surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

16:15 -16:45 Covid tracheostomy and airway complications: Mr Andy Kinshuck, consultant ENT surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

16:45 - 17:15 Surviving Covid and returning to work: Dr Seema Charters, consultant anaesthetist, Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

17:15 TRAINEE PRIZE/CLOSE

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Poster Presentations: click on a button to access the poster

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Sponsored by:

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Karl Storz - Endoskope          Cook Medical         Ambu         Intersurgical

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