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W.A. Airway Group (WAAG)

The W.A. Airway Group is for clinicians from all disciplines who share an interest in airway management.
Annual membership is $50 for trainees and $80 for consultants.
Click here for registration form.
To join the email list, please send an email by clicking here.
Next education meeting: Exmouth May 2012 (see home page of this website)
In the news: Dr Robert Radici is featured with Dr Rob Visser in the West Australian newspaper on Tuesday 23 June on page 10. Rob assisted with an emergency tracheostomy at Merredin Hospital as part of an RFDS retrieval.

In the journals: The formulation and introduction of a 'can't intubate, can't ventilate' algorithm into clinical practice. Heard AM, Green RJ, Eakins P. Anaesthesia 2009 Jun;^4(6):601-8. The use of ultrasound to guide time-critical cannula tracheotomy when anterior neck airway anatomy is unidentifiable. Dinsmore J, Heard AM, Green RJ. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2011 Jul;28(7):506-10. Laryngospasm in an unsedated patient during elective cannula cricothyroidotomy. Mayer J, Heard A, Dinsmore J, Lacquiere D. Anaesthesia. 2011 Jan;66(1):65-6. Manikin study of fibreoptic-guided intubation through the classic laryngeal mask airway with the Aintree intubating catheter vs the intubating laryngeal mask airway in the simulated difficult airway. Heard AM, Lacquiere DA, Riley RH. Anaesthesia. 2010 Aug;65(8):841-7. Emergency surgical airway in life-threatening acute airway emergencies--why are we so reluctant to do it? Greenland KB, Acott C, Segal R, Goulding G, Riley RH, Merry AF. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2011 Jul;39(4):578-84. Comparison of manikin models vs live sheep in 'can't intubate can't ventilate' training. Moran AP, Dinsmore J, Lacquiere DA, Heard AM. Delayed airway compromise following extubation of adult patients who required surgical drainage of Ludwig's angina: comment on three coronial cases. Greenland KB, Acott C, Segal R, Riley RH, Merry AF. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2011 May;39(3):506-8. Equipment to manage a difficult airway during anaesthesia. Baker PA, Flanagan BT, Greenland KB, Morris R, Owen H, Riley RH, Runciman WB, Scott DA, Segal R, Smithies WJ, Merry AF; Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2011 Jan;39(1):16-34.

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