Airway 2026 - Main Congress

at MAMC & LNJP Hospital Mastering ‘Shared-airway’ management helps in managing airway with limited access in advanced ENT and orodental surgeries. It involves Focused airway assessment, Critical decision making and Learning special skills and specialized equipment.

This workshop will provide the participants opportunity to have hands-on experience of using equipment like MLS tube, Tritube, t- tube, montando tube, laser tubes, special supraglottic airway device, Ventrain EVA, Manujet and emergency surgical airway equipment.

They also get a chance to gain confidence in awake intubation by various means, and managing laser surgery, reconstruction surgery of airway, airway fires, airway bleeding, foreign body airway obstruction, ‘at-risk’ extubation, post extubation airway obstruction and emergency front of neck access.

at VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital Knowing one’s patient, Knowing one’s equipment and Knowing one’s procedures are the essential building blocks needed for airway management that have been highlighted by AMF since many years. In realtime clinical situations, integration of these three is needed in planning and executing the airway management plan(s), along with effective team dynamics.

Practicing real time scenarios on high fidelity simulators helps the airway manager to learn to create and implement their main and subsidiary management plans, while effectively using the basic airway management skills during implementation of their plan(s).

This workshop will provide multiple opportunities to the participants to work as an efficient and effective team of airway managers, creating and implementing their own plans on high fidelity manikins. This will be followed by debriefing sessions with experts conducting these workstations.

Injuries involving the oral cavity, maxillofacial region, and cervical spine present unique challenges due to distorted anatomy, bleeding, secretions, and the risk of cervical spine instability. These conditions not only warrant urgent care but also require the establishment of a definitive, secured airway.

Patients undergoing maxillofacial surgery present additional concerns, including the possibility of associated cervical spine trauma and the need for intraoperative airway sharing between the anesthesiologist and the surgeon.

This unique workshop will provide you opportunity to learn how to perform airway access in situations of massive airway contamination from blood and secretions using Suction-Assisted Laryngoscopy and Airway Decontamination (SALAD), and airway access with cervical spine stabilization.

Learn the tips and tricks, including decision making, of nasal intubation by multiple means depending upon whether your center has only basic airway equipment or you work in an advanced center. Also, learn how to deal with situations where oral intubation is mandated for oral surgery and retromolar and submental approaches have to be resorted to.

Finally, this workshop will also prepare you for ‘At-risk’ extubation situations and the rare ‘can’t intubate-ventilate-oxygenate’ scenario

Every airway manager aims for crisis free airway management through good assessment, good airway skills and good optimization strategies. Although this reduces problems, it cannot eliminate airway crises altogether. This workshop will provide hands-on opportunity to the participants to identify the gravity of airway crises, learn the general principles during airway crises and management of airway crises of various severity. The elaborate platter will offer the complete range, from the often dreaded but mostly benign Can't intubate; to the rare but life-threatening Can't oxygenate situations and the means, mindset and teamwork to deal with these calmly and effectively

Intensivists need to acquire special airway management skills for managing anatomically and physiologically challenging airways in critically ill patients, being nursed in supine or prone position.

Percutaneous tracheostomy (PCT) by various techniques; Opening and clearing choked alveoli and airways beyond carina; Airway maneuvers to factor in the 'at-risk' physiology of critically ill patients; Airway management in patients in prone position are some of the must-know skills for an efficient intensivist; and more!

The need to keep one of the two lungs quiet or differentially treated, by lung isolation, is useful not only during thoracic surgery but in many other situations as well. Double lumen tubes (DLTs) meet most such needs while bronchial blockers chip in for special situations.

This workshop prepares the participants to place the left and right sided DLTs and confirm their position by multiple means. Participants also get a hands-on opportunity to use multiple Bronchial Blockers (BB) and ETT-BB combinations.

Pediatric lung isolation presents unique challenges as the lung isolation apparatus is not available below a certain age. This, thus, is discussed and dealt exclusively. Lung isolation brings multiple physiological challenges with it and this workshop addresses all these as well.

For decades, airway managers focused only on anatomical factors while deciding which patient had a challenging airway. Many patients continued to deteriorate around airway interventions and initiation of positive pressure ventilation.

Many airway managers recognized that altered physiological states were causing these complications and made necessary adjustments to improve outcomes. However, the concept of a physiologically challenging airway gained structured recognition only in recent years.

This workshop exposes participants to multiple physiologically challenging airway situations in the OR, ICU, NORA, and other critical settings. It provides hands-on opportunities to identify, prevent, and manage physiologically challenging airways using practical and evidence-based approaches.