When to Extubate – Getting the Timing Right
This is another one of those occasions, after a looooong break, where this blog gets dusted off to put up a version of a talk. This time it’s for SPANZA […]
Category Archives: Airway
The Beginning of the End
This is the post version of a talk in the airway workshop for PACSA 2019 in Johannesburg. A lot of the references and thinking underpinning this came from this post. […]
The Actual Things to Think About
This post is pretty much a talk given as part of the airway workshop at the Paediatric Anaesthetic Congress of South Africa, 2019 in Johannesburg by Andrew Weatherall. A 10 […]
Shared Blood – Bleeding Tonsils
It’s a classic case that should make us sweat – the patient who is bleeding after tonsillectomy. A dive into the [cough] extensive literature with Dr Andrew Weatherall. There are just […]
Best Laid Plans
Not that long ago there was a whole post on the redesign of the difficult airway trolley at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. It was pretty popular, but it was sort of […]
Different Dragons – A Quest Updated
A while back a post went up after a talk on difficult airways which featured a range of characters and the rolling of a few dice. Well with a revisit for […]
The Airway Trolley – Something Old? Something New?
This is a slightly different bit of sharing. Dr Andrew Weatherall works at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead where they’ve been quietly working away at a redesign of the difficult airway […]
Fresh Air 2 – An Update on THRIVE in kids
It’s not that long ago that a post went up on the merits of THRIVE in little people went up. You can have a read right here. There’s another paper just out which kind […]
When the going gets tough – comparing tools in difficult airways
Difficult airways in kids might be mostly predicted but that’s not the end of them being difficult. How do we go with the tools we choose? By Andrew Weatherall Kids’ anaesthetists […]
Simple Moves for Kind of Simple Airways – Supraglottic Techniques
There’s no finesse to putting in a laryngeal mask, right? You just throw it in and it doesn’t matter what it is, yes? Maybe no. A quick look through things supraglottic […]
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