Monday, February 26, 2018

Near Perfection in Airway Management is now Possible #6

Airway Management Academy Founded 2013 - Netherlands


     I speak often about the UK Concept of " designating an Airway Lead" for your hospital. The individual seeking that role must have the drive to go out and get the skills and then bring these back to the institution and convince fellow Doctors that he or she is the person to lead the charge in developing local airway leadership.

    The restless ambition and enthusiasm for teaching Airway Management Excellence is nowhere more clearly exhibited that in the case of Dr. Hans Huitink from the Mobile Anesthesiology Service Holland Foundation . Hans and his co-workers are passionate super stars who have dedicated themselves to excellence in airway management and their association has created a non-profit teaching organization  Airway Management Academy with teaching locations in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Bern Switzerland , and Doha Qatar. Courses are offered in English, Dutch, and German languages. Experts from many countries contribute to the programs and the offsite courses.

    This is but 1 example of many high level learning opportunities that may form the core learning platform for those aspiring to be " UK style Hospital Airway Leads".  This type of learning assures that one will be mixing and meeting with the best minds available.

    Hans has developed a very dynamic team and has created a CE approved  Airway Triage Ap available for Apple devices via the I store for 3.49 Euros . This Ap provides practitioners with a valuable tool that will keep patients safe in a systematic way that can fit well with a teaching program for your "Airway Leads" to , in one step,  bring airway decision support where it is needed  at the bedside.  The development of electronic medical decision support is now in its infancy but will sweep into clinical care like a tidal wave very soon. 

      No more mindless decisions to cause one to wade in where angels fear to tread. The Ap will not escape the attention of shrewd Legal experts who can and will use it for a devastating law suit results.

   The following Major organizations are now available to build community for the Local Hospital Airway Lead:

  • The Society For Airway Management SAM
  • The UK Difficult Airway Society DAS
  • The European Difficult Airway Society
  • The Chinese Difficult Airway Society
  • The World Airway Management Meeting WAMM (Amsterdam 2019)


   The new tools and the new training opportunities allow excellence to be learned and taught worldwide. I attended the initial meeting of the Chinese Difficult Airway Society  2010 with , I was told starting Membership of 500.  Very keen and impressive key Chinese Anesthesiologists were eagerly preparing to learn and add to the worlds collective airway expertise. 


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