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David Anderson leads an interactive discussion on the airway related escapades of a patient from the roadside to the ICU.

Lachlan Miles takes us on a wild ride through the airway literature - mine the methods!

Matt James wecomes delegates to SAS 2025 Noosa. Adam Rehak gives an entertaining talk on the history of SAS.

With the needle vs scalpel debate still raging on (at least in Australasia) SAS bravely decides to avoid the issue. Instead, Nick Chrimes leads an expert panel through the relative merits of different scalpel techniques for neck rescue. He is joined by Andy Higgs, Thy Do, Scott Weingart, Reza Nouraei, David Vokes and Adam Rehak.

Linda Beckmann, the chair of the ANZCA/ASA/NZSA Airway Special Interest Group, gives an update about the group's activities.

Adam Rehak tells a cautionary tale of misadventure after the AFL Grand Final to demonstrate the complexities of airway injury. An interprofessional panel drawn from the audience guides us through the challenges of threatened airway management from the point of injury to discharge from hospital.

Anoushka Perera leads a session on the physiologically difficult airway. Jared Mosier, author of the seminal 2015 paper on the topic, is joined by Kirstin Fraser and Chris McLenachan on the panel.

SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2024.

Andrew Robinson leads a discussion on this higly topical and somewhat controversial topic. Tim Cook, David Story, Erin Foulsham, Ben Olesnicky, Ruth Parsell and Phil Visser make up the interprofessional panel.

Internationally renowned human factors expert Victoria Brazil describes how a group of highly functioning individuals can become a high performance airway team.

SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2023.

Recorded 19th Jun 2023 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. In this episode we go back to basics to discuss the what is arguably the most important and difficult upper airway technique to master - facemask ventilation. Host Nicholas Chrimes is joined by Pierre Bradley & Joanna Simpson to discuss why facemask ventilation is important, how to optimise it, how to document it and much more. Useful Resources: Facemask Ventilation article by Pierre Bradley in BJA Education: https://www.bjaed.org/article/S2058-5349(21)00126-8/pdf Facemask Optimisations from the Vortex Approach: http://vortexapproach.org/lifelines#fmv ANZCA Airway Assessment document: https://libguides.anzca.edu.au/ld.php?content_id=48533093 Articles on test facemark ventilation before giving muscle relaxants: Evaluation of changes in tidal volume during mask ventilation following administration of neuromuscular blocking drugs https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.12677 Could 'safe practice' be compromising safe practice? https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05429.x Face-mask ventilation: the neglected essentials? https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.14703 Facemask ventilation before or after neuromuscular blocking drugs: where are we now? https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.12792 Checking mask ventilation before neuromuscular block: A nation-wide survey of anaesthetists' attitudes and thinking. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aas.13426  Difficult Airway Alert Form: https://www.safercare.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Victorian%20difficult%20airway%20alert%20and%20support%20document.pdf Grading systems for outcome of facemask ventilation: Concord Scale - capnography grading scale for objective description of mask ventilation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007091217372094?pes=vorhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007091217372094?pes=vor Han Scale: https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/101/1/267/8519/Grading-Scale-for-Mask-Ventilation Join SAS: https://www.SafeAirwaySociety.org/join