Save the dates for our 2026 #AirwayWorkshopRoadshow & annual meeting. This year our annual meeting will be held back-to-back with the @anzca.bsky.social @thenzsa.bsky.social @asa-australia.bsky.social Airway SIG meeting in Noosa Heads, QLD. Registrations open Jan 2026 More details to follow.

“For clinicians who have abandoned cricoid force… the qtn to be answered is why they employ any element of RSI at all. Rather than selectively abandoning cricoid force as a component, it should perhaps be the only component we retain” From @chrimesy.com in @anaesjournal.bsky.social

Hyperangulated videolaryngoscopy: stylet first until benefit of bougie is shown "...the current challenge for the wider community of anaesthetists ... is not mastery of HAVL but access to devices, routine use, gaining familiarly and developing competence." #AnSky ttps://doi.org/10.1111/anae.70062

Interested in doing an Airway Fellowship on the NSW Central Coast next year? Gosford Hospital are offering a 12mth Airway Fellowship in 2026. Contact Head of Dept Frances Page for more details.

Default VL now recommended by multiple guidelines incl CAFG, PUMA & DAS Narrative review of default VL in @anaesjournal.bsky.social Discusses the benefits, challenges & myths of VL Provides the info make a business case for default VL Describes strategies for addressing implementation challenges

Slideset for my talk at #waam2025 celebrating the best airway papers published in @anaesjournal.bsky.social over the past 10 years sthjournalclub.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/w...

2025 DAS guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult airway published today in the British Journal of Anaesthesia. #airway #difficultairway #intubation #anaesthesia #anesthesia https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(25)00693-2/fulltext

Join us in Florence for #WAMM2025! Celebrate the progress in airway management with top experts, hands-on workshops, and amazing networking opportunities. Don’t miss out! Register today: bit.ly/3RvhynY #AirwayManagement #MedicalConference

The application of cricoid force remains controversial in modern practice. A new review by Sotiriou et al. critically assesses the anatomic, physiologic, and contemporary clinical evidence of cricoid force application: ow.ly/Mkx350WY3Zy

Safe Airway Society (a not-for-profit org. in Australia & New Zealand; aiming to optimize safe, effective patient care through a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to airway management across different healthcare roles & settings) leaves X (3.699 followers) Bluesky: @safeairwaysociety.org

International Consensus Guidelines for Preventing Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation. Free full text in @anaesjournal.bsky.social Supported by @dasairway.bsky.social @safeairwaysociety.org @asahq.bsky.social @rcoanews.bsky.social & many more… www.universalairway.org/puoi/support

The @universalairway.org guidelines for preventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation are supported by @safeairwaysociety.org, @anzca.bsky.social & @dasairway.bsky.social VL should be used routinely whenever feasible. Clinical signs should not be used to exclude oesophageal intubation.

The Safe Airway Liaison Group in the UK have released a statement on displaying the waveform capnography trace in line with the @universalairway.org recommendations. The CO2 trace should be: 1. The bottom trace 2. White 3. Shaded in www.salg.ac.uk/salg-publica...

🚨We have retired "no trace, wrong place" to align with PUMA guidelines. Instead, with @assocanaes.bsky.social and @dasairway.bsky.social, our message is that if sustained exhaled CO2 is not detected, then oesophageal intubation must be ruled out. See our dedicated webpage👉 ow.ly/vOZs50WA03r

3-step guide to mastering #HAVL from @cliffreid.bsky.social 1. Watch the video m.youtube.com/watch?v=aYo7... 2. Read the stepwise guide drive.google.com/file/d/14r_W... 3. Deliberate team practice (rinse & repeat)

From @cliffreid.bsky.social a step-by-step summary of my technique for #HAVL #AnSky #AirwayMx

I’ve used this - it’s worth a look

The sats probe tells you what happened in the past- the capnograph tells you what will happen in the future

International consensus guidelines for preventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation from @universalairway.org

Technique for HAVL with @chrimesy.com & @cliffreid.bsky.social

Our First Keynote Speaker is Prof Donatella Lippi. She will be presenting a session called "Conversations on Art, Anatomy & the Airway" on Thursday, 6 November, 9:00 am. Join us in Florence for this and many more sessions: wamm2025.com/registration #AirwayManagement #WAMM2025

This is the key issue w capnography. SpO2 will show you (with some lag) the consequences of hypoventilation, obstruction, airway misplacement, etc. CO2 will show you many causes of hypoxaemia (in real time), allowing you to begin addressing them before desaturation occurs. Prevention vs cure.

Surely if you think cricoid pressure works therapeutically to stop/reduce regurgitation when it occurs, you should be using it to exploit this efficacy to prevent regurg. Conversely if you don’t use cricoid prophylactically bc you don’t think it works, why would you apply it if regurg occurs?

To paraphrase Dr Tim Cook, ‘can see - can’t tube’ is a problem with the operator not the scope.

Ha! I have placed many, many DLTs but from now on I shall use this prof Silvers method!! 👌🏼

Universal HAVL: 100% grade 1 view & 1st pass success since 2020. 😘👌

We are pleased to present our 2nd and 3rd place Infographic Winners Dr James Wheelans and Dr Bethany Goulson with their infographics on the Perioperative Management of GLP-1 Agonists and Airway Management in C-Spine Injury @dasairway.bsky.social

Success of #airway management in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using different devices - a prospective, single-center, observational study comparing professions sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #PHEA #Intubation #OHCA #PHEM #EM

What does your difficult airway alert form look like? Here's a standardised communication tool from Queensland. Thoughts? Similarities/differences from your institution? #AnSky #AirwaySky doi.org/10.1111/anae...

A/Prof Andrew Silvers demonstrates a simple technique for inserting a double lumen tube. vimeo.com/simpact/dlt

How about some more medical-related organisations make an ethical stand and abandon Twitter? If you're still posting there you're part of the problem. Trust your followers to come with you. @dasairway.bsky.social @anaesjournal.bsky.social @bjajournals.bsky.social @rcoanews.bsky.social

We’ve followed @anzca.bsky.social‘s lead & will no longer be posting on Twitter. Bluesky all the way!

SAS President Louise Ellard kicks off our 1st ever Airway Roadshow Workshop in Tasmania #SASHobart

Airway assistant (ala airway ally) litfl.com/airway-assis... the forgotten role in airway management in ED, ICU, and the wards… but an important one! #foamed #foamcc

Unrecognised esophageal intubation litfl.com/unrecognised... Largely derived from the superb PUMA guidelines by @chrimesy.com et al #foamed #foamcc

I’m supportive of gentle FMV in RSI but that study was an abomination for many reasons. I know about 20 clinicians w an interest in airway Mx (& widely published in the area) who submitted critical correspondence, NONE of which was published by @nejm.org. Here’s mine.

Are you a current, active member of @dasairway.bsky.social, SAM, or EAMS? We're offering reduced registration rates for #WAMM2025 in Florence! Don't miss out on this exclusive member benefit. Register today: bit.ly/3RvhynY

Recognising & managing the physiologically difficult airway. ED physician Anoushka Perera leads this SAS2024 session with panel Jarrod Mosier, Kirstin Fraser & Chris McLenachan. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s...

Key points: 1. ALWAYS confirm criteria for sustained exhaled CO2 are satisfied. 2. NEVER use clinical signs to exclude oesophageal intubation 3. The fastest, simplest & most definitive way to exclude oesophageal intubation is to remove the tube AND ventilate with an alternate device.

Scalpel vs Scalpel: Sick of the cannula vs scalpel neck rescue debate? @chrimesy.com discusses the relative merits of different scalpel techniques with Andy Higgs, Thy Do, Scott Weingart, Reza Nouraei, David Vokes & Adam Rehak. From SAS2024 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s...

Full list of supporting organisations: www.universalairway.org/puoi#puoi/su...

Organisations supporting the 'Consensus guidelines for preventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation' incl both @anzca.bsky.social and @rcoanews.bsky.social. Guidelines free full text in @anaesjournal.bsky.social: associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sat plenary sessions for #SAS2025Noosa have sold out! Waitlist available Limited places still avail for wshops on Fri 12th September (same content as 2025 #AirwayWorkshopRoadshow in Adelaide, Hobart, Perth & Auckland. Places also available for latter 3) Register at: safeairwaysociety.org/events/

The antecedent question is what extra precautions are necessary in someone at increased risk of aspiration.

One question is what term we will use to describe the extra precautions we would take in someone we consider being at risk of aspiration. Aspiration Safe Intubation (ASI)?

Background reading for this week’s debate - this excellent editorial by @sthjournalclub.bsky.social & Craig Lyons in @anaesjournal.bsky.social associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

“The term & concept of RSI should be abandoned due to the simplistic rationale behind it, the absence of evidence to support it & its potential for harm.” #VortexDebate #AnSky #MedSky

Ok it’s time for the very first Midweek #AnSkyMedSkyDebate, which I will call the #VortexDebate after the wonderful @chrimesy.com#AnSkyMedSkyDebate#VortexDebate Come on let’s get our opinions out and have a good robust discussion. See next comment for the topic. #AnSky #MedSky

I’ll take that…

A good study on actual trained anaesthetists in Europe… we all know VL is good, so where is the guidance I can wave at purchasing to let us have more than one glidescope between seven theatres*? Said guidance also needs to let us train and maintain DL as a core competency (*hyperbole)