Workshop - Airway Ultrasound (Part 2/2)
R. Hesselfeldt
Chair(s): Søren Steemann Rudolph & Ban Tsui
Wednesday 30 september 2015
15:15 - 17:15h
at Mainport 3, 5 (Wednesday Workshops)
Categories: Workshop
Parallel session: Workshop - Airway Ultrasound
Part 2/2
Overview
This is a 2-hour hands-on airway ultrasound workshop which aims to provide cutting-edge information on using ultrasound to assess and identify airway anatomy and structures, as
well as how to utilize the latest technology to facilitate easy-to-perform blocks of the airway. The workshop includes a half hour didactic lecture and video demonstration followed by ample opportunity to gain hands-on experience using both living and in vitro models.
Objectives
At the end of this airway workshop, participants should be able to:
- Perform a basic airway ultrasound assessment.
- Identify key anatomical structures of the airway, including cricothyroid membrane, vocal cords, vessels, midline, thyroid isthmus, and tracheal features for percutaneous tracheostomy.
- Understand the benefits and limitations of using ultrasound for airway assessment.
- Know how to use ultrasound to aid in predicting a difficult airway, including identification of pre-tracheal soft tissue and visualization of the hyoid bone.
- Detect bilateral lung ventilation, including potential pitfalls/problems.
- Confidently perform nerve blocks of the airway using landmark-, nerve stimulator-, and ultrasound-guided techniques. Also discussed will be topicalization for difficult airway and cricothyroid puncture for transtracheal injection.
