Airway Emergencies: How to Avoid the Adrenaline Rush (AMW) Session
2021 AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting & OTO Experience
As Otolaryngologists, we have all been called to assist with airway problems, often after all other options have been exhausted. This panel presentation will focus on ways to both evaluate airway emergencies when they happen and decrease the occurrence of these devastating airway disasters. Evaluation of airway emergencies using concepts of Safety I (how to stop things going wrong) and Safety II (reinforcing the things that went right) will be discussed. The presentation will also include discussion of cognitive bias and the importance of standardization during airway emergencies, rationale for and tips to create a multifaceted, multidisciplinary airway QI program including an airway QI conference, and how to get institutional buy-in to create a multidisciplinary difficult airway response team (DART).
Description
Learning Objective: 1. Understand Safety I and II concepts and how to apply them to the evaluation of airway emergencies. 2. Understand the importance of multidisciplinary conferences and teams to reduce intra-team conflict and promote the effectiveness of difficult airway management. 3. Understand cognitive bias and how these biases may affect reactions positively and negatively in stressful situations. Faculty: Ross Mayerhoff, MD(Nothing to Disclose), Carol Bier-Laning, MD(Nothing to Disclose), Karthik Balakrishnan, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACS(Nothing to Disclose), Ellen Deutsch, MD, MS, FACS, FAAP, FSSH(Research Funding: NIH).
