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Snippet ‘Tea trolley’ difficult airway training
The 4th National Audit Project (NAP4) recommended that the airway skills of trainee and consultant anaesthetists are maintained with regular education and training [1].
We have developed a difficult airway ‘tea trolley’ for practising asleep/awake fibreoptic intubation and needle cricothyroidotomy that provides a cheap alternative to formal training courses (Fig. 1). Each ‘tea trolley’ teaching session is
run by two anaesthetists, one of whom takes over the intra-operative care of a stable patient, releasing the listed anaesthetist for a 15-min teaching session in the anaesthetic room with the other, after which tea and cake are provided. G. O’Farrell M. McDonald F. E. Kelly Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK Email: [email protected] No external funding or competing interests declared.
Reference 1. Cook TM, Woodall N, Frerk C. Major complications of airway management in the UK: results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 1 anaesthesia. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2011; 106: 617–31.
Figure 1 ‘Tea trolley’ difficult airway training in progress.
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Snippet ‘Tea trolley’ difficult airway training
The 4th National Audit Project (NAP4) recommended that the airway skills of trainee and consultant anaesthetists are maintained with regular education and training [1].
We have developed a difficult airway ‘tea trolley’ for practising asleep/awake fibreoptic intubation and needle cricothyroidotomy that provides a cheap alternative to formal training courses (Fig. 1). Each ‘tea trolley’ teaching session is
run by two anaesthetists, one of whom takes over the intra-operative care of a stable patient, releasing the listed anaesthetist for a 15-min teaching session in the anaesthetic room with the other, after which tea and cake are provided. G. O’Farrell M. McDonald F. E. Kelly Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK Email: [email protected] No external funding or competing interests declared.
Reference 1. Cook TM, Woodall N, Frerk C. Major complications of airway management in the UK: results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 1 anaesthesia. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2011; 106: 617–31.
Figure 1 ‘Tea trolley’ difficult airway training in progress.
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doi:10.1111/anae.12964
© 2014 The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
