Assoc Prof Neuro-Vascular-Trauma Anaesthetist @Alfredhealth | Past Chair @ANZCA AirwayMx SIG | X VIC & TAS Airway Lead | Anaesthetic Advisory Committee @Epworth
Signed up (thanks @oldandbaffled) for a fibrescope competition. Used the ANZCA stop-centre-move technique, bagged 9 gophers, and somehow posted a suspiciously good time. Pure luck, obviously.
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#WAMM2025
Please visit DAS stall (107- immediately to the right before you enter the plenary room) to play some exciting airway games!
You can also purchase DAS@30 theatre hats here.
@AirwayMxAcademy Agree, that's why point-of-care CICO kits have been standard in Australia for over a decade and even have a commercial distributor, in addition to the hospital-made kits.
https://t.co/DgNNhVlq5T
see neck rescue kits https://t.co/XmC5wuxVTx
@lionsofficial The Lions are coming. I’m in Australia—ready to roar, huge fan, maybe the biggest.
But the jersey? “Tariffs and regulations”—can’t get one shipped from official store. Total mess.
Feels like a plot to stop the sea of red. Very unfair. Very un-rugby. SAD!
@DrMaxSayers@clare_angela_ Not all compulsory courses offer significant value beyond being procedural formalities to meet risk management requirements, allowing the organisation to claim compliance. Therefore, if these courses impose a time cost on participants, that time should be reimbursed.
@mokaeleni@GongGasGirl Or alternatively reduce cost of hospital stay and hope the patients have been appropriate selected. Not convinced it’s optimal, just cheaper with a different risk benefit.
@berniebentick@clare_angela_ While here in Australia, Specialist Anaesthetist is a protected title to avoid confusion as it seems the word consultant can be used to describe a multitude of roles, medical and non medical and restrictions on the word consultant seems highly unlikely.
@NicholasChrimes Would you not be better to go from DL to havl or even better start at Mac VL if you’re airway assessment suggested it was going to be straight forward?
@Winn_on_Health @Gastrografin1 @cricketRH In some parts of the world, the title specialist (inset medical speciality) is a legally protected title for consultants in a specific field of medicine.
@jducanto@breath_punctual@AirwayMxAcademy Agree
Also the assessment should be used to determine your plans rather than
1. assessment done ✔️
3.use VL.
4.Write a page of notes documenting the subsequent hypoxia
This can be what happens when you miss
Step 2. Consider assessment and determine plan
#2curvetheory
@doctimcook@audreydejongMD@BJAJournals@Fionafionakel From a presentation a whileback basedon ANZCA airway assessment & I'll preface this with that the 1st slide is open 2debate about whether it should be a VL first line or not.Personal view if VL available, it should be used, provided its not resource limited ie turnaround time 1/2