Strategic planning and thorough preparation for advanced airway management in patients with complex maxillofacial injuries are essential, but basic airway skills remain fundamental. This second part of a two-part tutorial provides a detailed overview of essential airway management techniques.

Simulation-based education (SBE) of health care providers is ubiquitous in well-resourced locations and has been used successfully to teach clinical and nontechnical skills. Numerous barriers prevent this important educational tool from widespread use in resource-limited and remote settings. Vital Anaesthesia...

Background Lack of access to safe and affordable anesthesia and surgical care is a major contributor to avoidable death and disability across the globe. Effective education initiatives are a viable mechanism to address critical skill and process gaps in perioperative...

Summary Background Skilled facilitators are essential to drive effective simulation training in healthcare. Competency-based frameworks support the development of facilitation skills but, to our knowledge, there are no frameworks that specifically address context-sensitive priorities developed with practitioners working in low-resource...

Background Short educational programmes are important in building global anaesthesia workforce capacity. The Vital Anaesthesia Simulation Training (VAST) course is a 3-day immersive simulation-based programme concentrating on core clinical challenges and non-technical skills required by anaesthesia providers in low-resource settings....