NAW has provided a platform for difficult airway training since 2004. We teach extensive hands-on practical skills. NAW attracts national and international delegates. For individual attention we have one-one delegate to faculty ratio.

NAW is suitable for all grades of anaesthetists, PAs, anaesthetic nurses/ODPs, paramedics and other specialties like A&E, intensive care respiratory physicians who want to learn advance airway techniques.

For anaesthetists, we recommend at least one year of anaesthetic experience before attending the workshop. 

Non UK delegates are welcome. If you are not registered with GMC then please provide a valid copy of your medical council registration and proof of Hep B immunisation.

Delegates will learn

♦ Prediction of difficult airway

♦ Difficult Airway Society Guidelines

♦ APA/DAS Paediatric Airway Guidelines

♦ Human factor

♦ Awake Tracheal Intubation & Flexible Bronchoscopic Intubation (FBI) under GA lectures

♦ Awake Tracheal Intubation on a manikin including FB and VL

♦ Video Assisted Flexible Bronchoscopic Intubation (VAFI) on a manikin

♦ Nasal endoscopy on a manikin

♦ Techniques of flexible bronchoscopic intubation on manikin, including use of Aintree catheter and 2nd generation SAD etc

♦ Each participating doctor/PA will perform flexible bronchoscopic intubation on an anaesthetised patient, under supervision*   

♦ Videolaryngoscopes and other difficult airway management devices**

♦ Ultrasound Neck & Gastric

♦ THRIVE / HFNO

♦ Scenario-based discussion

♦ Cricothyroidotomy 

♦ Tracheostomy/Laryngectomy Crisis Management

♦ SCOOP simulation – Management of neck haematoma after thyroid surgery

♦ Simulation station on difficult airway management

♦ ORSIM – Flexible bronchoscope simulator 

* The Nurses/ODPs will not perform FBI on patient instead they will take up their roll on the 2nd day.

** We do our best to get most of the new intubation aids, but the availability depends upon the medical representatives and can not be guaranteed.

(Doctors & PAs attending NAW must be proficient in basic airway management skills including use of supraglottic airway devices and standard endotracheal intubation)

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