Workshop 4: Airway Management: Front-of-Neck Airway

Overview

The Airway Management: Front-of-Neck Airway Workshop will provide an evidence-based approach to emergency airway management. Techniques for managing the failed airway will be reviewed and practiced by attendees during a hands-on session exclusively focusing on difficult and failed airways. Training will emphasize scenarios requiring airway rescue strategies aligned with published international airway algorithms. Participants will practice techniques using fresh pig larynx and trachea preparations and manikin airway models.

Training in advanced airway techniques, including adjuncts to securing the failed airway will be reviewed. Small group learning and hands-on training will reinforce learning and provide valuable practice with proven airway devices and techniques.

Learning Objectives

1. Increase knowledge and mastery of airway management in high-risk airway scenarios, with specific considerations to the anatomically and physiologically difficult airway.
2. Analyze effective airway algorithms for a reproducible approach to the failed airway with an emphasis on front-of-neck surgical airway.

The Airway Management – Front-of-Neck Airway Workshop will be led by Joanne Donnelly (USA) and Mouhajir Mohamed (Morocco). 

Agenda