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 […]
Category Archives: Airway
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 […]
Old School/New School – Updating Classic RSI
Respect for the classics doesn’t mean being stuck with them. Here’s a refresher on why you might not want to do RSI like they used to by Dr Andrew Weatherall Everything in […]
A Real World Update on MPS – Podcast #4
Back to a podcast already. This time there is a brand new guest, the very excellent Dr Gail Wong. Gail works at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead but also spent a […]
Airway Knowledge Doesn’t Auto-Update
Well that was a bit of a gap. A quick post on the return about something we all know we know but could do with unknowing – simple stuff on the […]
Better Takeaway Options for Kids
This post is the written version of a talk by Dr Andrew Weatherall for the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists Congress 2017 in Johannesburg. The organising committee extended the invitation […]
Fresh Air
Airway management is just a little bit different in kids. Sometimes it is tough. So wouldn’t you like more time to sort it out? Andrew Weatherall has a quick look at an […]
