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Category Archives: Airway

The Beginning of the End

November 8, 2019by songsorstories Leave a comment

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.  […]

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Airway, Conference Bits

The Actual Things to Think About

November 8, 2019by songsorstories Leave a comment

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 […]

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Airway, Conference Bits

Shared Blood – Bleeding Tonsils

July 3, 2018by songsorstories 6 Comments

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 […]

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Airway, Classics, ENT

Best Laid Plans

June 14, 2018by songsorstories 2 Comments

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 […]

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Airway, Uncategorized

Different Dragons – A Quest Updated

April 27, 2018by songsorstories 4 Comments

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 […]

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Airway

The Airway Trolley – Something Old? Something New?

April 9, 2018by songsorstories 3 Comments

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 […]

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Airway, Clinical Practice

Fresh Air 2 – An Update on THRIVE in kids

March 22, 2018by songsorstories 4 Comments

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 […]

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Airway, Clinical Practice

When the going gets tough – comparing tools in difficult airways

October 19, 2017by songsorstories 3 Comments

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 […]

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Airway

Simple Moves for Kind of Simple Airways – Supraglottic Techniques

September 22, 2017by songsorstories 3 Comments

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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Airway

Old School/New School – Updating Classic RSI

July 7, 2017by songsorstories 6 Comments

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 […]

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Airway, Clinical Practice

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