| Title | Mastering Anesthesia: Techniques, Challenges, and Innovations | |
| Details | Date: 28 September 2024 (Saturday) Time: 1330 – 1415 hrs |
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| Synopsis | By the end of this symposium, the delegate will gain insight into the role of Video laryngoscopy in enhancing airway management safety by facilitating the effective placement of a tracheal tube on the first attempt (so called first pass success), without complications.
The delegates will look at the use of Video laryngoscopy across the world and highlight some of the dilemmas posed by the current evidence base and think through how close we have come to universal Video laryngoscopy availability or use. |
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| Objectives | – To understand the potential benefits of video laryngoscopy – To critically examine some of the literature on the subject – To understand some of the limitations and the need for training |
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| Faculty |  |
Alistair McNarry is a consultant anaesthetist in Edinburgh, UK and his interest and clinical practice in airway management ranges from awake intubation to apnoeic oxygenation and everything in between. In 2016 he was appointed the UKs first Airway Lead’s Coordinator, a joint post between the Difficult Airway Society and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, which he demitted in 2023. In this post he was able to promote his real passion of improving airway safety wherever and whenever an airway is managed.
He has held various posts within the Difficult Airway Society and has had the privilege of being an author on three published DAS Guidelines. In addition, he has over 50 published works and has authored 4 book chapters. He has lectured around the world both in person and virtually from Dublin to Kuwait including to an audience of 48,000 at a virtual meeting of the International Airway Management Society. In 2024 he was awarded the College Medal of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. In his spare time he is an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Anaesthesia and has been abstract coordinator at the World Airway Management Meetings in 2015 and 2019, and where he would be delighted to see many of the delegates in 2025. |
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