Airway 2024 - Main Congress

Thoracic anesthesia and surgery depend heavily on lung isolation. 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 with or without using flexible fiberscope. Participants also get a hands-on opportunity to use multiple Bronchial blockers and ETT-bronchial blocker combo such as the Univent tube. Pediatric lung isolation (as pediatric lung isolation apparatus is not available below a certain age) and Oxygenation during one-lung ventilation (OLV) present unique challenges. These, thus, are discussed and dealt exclusively.

Obese and Obstetrics patients present unique set of airway management challenges. The presence of live fetus inside the lady in advanced pregnancy adds another layer of apprehension while handling airway management related challenges. And as obesity becomes rampant, the obese and morbidly obese are becoming a regular on the OT table. This workshop will give you hands-on training in anticipating, preventing and managing airway management issues in these patients through four very well-conceived, well-designed case based workstations.

Intensivists may come from multiple specialties but need to acquire airway management skills needed for managing airway in patients with very bad lungs and multiorgan involvement, being nursed in supine or prone position. Percutaneous tracheostomy (PCT; Without Guidance or With Guidance by a number of ways), opening and clearing choked airways beyond carina and alveoli, handling airway management situations and emergencies with patient in prone position are just some of the exciting skills unique to ICU. Find out for yourself what all is on offer in this very well-conceived workshop!

Refuting the traditional beliefs that ultrasound is futile in the imaging of air-filled structures, this focused advanced workshop will highlight why airway ultrasonography is fast becoming an unmatched skill in airway management; be it airway assessment, selection of appropriate equipment, confirmation of optimum device placement and location or supporting surgical access to airway (emergency front of neck access or PCT). The use of ultrasound can also aid in early detection of airway related complications like pneumothorax, vocal cord paresis, postoperative stridor, endobronchial intubation. Similarly, the ‘cheap and old’ plain x-rays of head, neck and chest too offer much more than what most of us think these do.

Our focused airway ultrasound and imaging workshop provides a comprehensive didactic instruction and hands-on training which orients you to the airway sonoanatomy and imaging, and encourages you to use these technologies for enhancing your airway management skills.

The airway management challenges during oral and maxillo-facial surgeries and trauma need specialized skills. Using nasal passage for introducing ETT, guided by direct laryngoscope, videolaryngoscope or flexible fiberscope under topicalization or GA is one such skill. Blind nasal intubation is still relevant in many centers in our country and around the world in the absence or sudden failure of flexible fiberscope. And submentotracheal Intubation also has some application. Many Extubation Options need to be weighed after OMF Surgery. Optimum and effective use of oxygen and suctioning is vital as well. This Advanced Specialized workshop will address all these skills.

Airway skills for ENT Surgery may appear to be the same as for Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery but that is far from true. Managing the airway with surgeon inside the larynx/trachea and anesthsiologist’s tube either nowhere around or right in the line of Laser beam is quite exciting. And then the experience of using surgeon’s rigid bronchoscope for ventilating patient’s lungs and delivering anesthetic is another interesting experience. Add to this the patients with T-tubes, with laryngeal growths, post-tonsillectomy bleeding, use of jet ventilation without ETT or with special ETTs, bronchoscopes, etc. and the list looks intimidating. But not so once you’ve gone through this outstanding Workshop!