SAS 2022 - Airway Innovators 2 - VAFI and FARSI
Release Date: 11/09/2023
Safe Airway Society Podcasts
With the needle vs scalpel debate still raging on (at least in Australasia) SAS bravely decides to avoid the issue. Instead, Nick Chrimes leads an expert panel through the relative merits of different scalpel techniques for neck rescue. He is joined by Andy Higgs, Thy Do, Scott Weingart, Reza Nouraei, David Vokes and Adam Rehak.
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Linda Beckmann, the chair of the ANZCA/ASA/NZSA Airway Special Interest Group, gives an update about the group's activities.
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Adam Rehak tells a cautionary tale of misadventure after the AFL Grand Final to demonstrate the complexities of airway injury. An interprofessional panel drawn from the audience guides us through the challenges of threatened airway management from the point of injury to discharge from hospital.
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Anoushka Perera leads a session on the physiologically difficult airway. Jared Mosier, author of the seminal 2015 paper on the topic, is joined by Kirstin Fraser and Chris McLenachan on the panel.
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SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2024.
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Andrew Robinson leads a discussion on this higly topical and somewhat controversial topic. Tim Cook, David Story, Erin Foulsham, Ben Olesnicky, Ruth Parsell and Phil Visser make up the interprofessional panel.
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Internationally renowned human factors expert Victoria Brazil describes how a group of highly functioning individuals can become a high performance airway team.
info_outlineAnaesthetist Adam Rehak describes and demonstrates VAFI (video-assisted fibre-optic intubation) and FARSI (fibre-optic assisted rapid sequence induction), for the management of difficult and traumatised airways.