Webinar: Breathing easy: from masks to mastery of the paediatric airway

Organised by the WFSA Paediatric Anaesthesia Committee, this webinar covered paediatric intubation results from the PeDI registry, strategies for managing difficult or impossible face mask ventilation and techniques for awake supraglottic airway placement.

FACULTY

Co-chairs

1. Dr. Olurotimi Aaron, Senior Lecturer/Paediatric Anaesthetist, Obafemi Awolowo University and Teaching Hospitals Complex, Member of Paediatric Anaesthesia Committee of WFSA (Nigeria)

2. Dr. Serpil Ustalar Ozgen, Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesia and Reanimation, University of MAA Acibadem, Chair of Paediatric Anaesthesia Committee and Council member of WFSA (Türkiye)

Speakers

1. Dr. Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

2. Dr. Lina Sarmiento, Professor of Paediatric Anaesthesiology at the Instituto Nacional de Pediatría in Mexico City (Mexico)

3. Dr. Mary Stein, Associate in Cardiac Anaesthesia, Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School (USA)

PROGRAMME:

1. Introduction by the webinar chairs

2. Talk 1: PeDI Registry: Analysing intubation outcomes over time by Dr. Lina Sarmiento

3. Talk 2: Don’t lose control: lessons learned from difficult or impossible facemask ventilation by Dr. Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz

4. Talk 3: Awake supraglottic airway placement by Dr. Mary Stein

5. Q&A and Discussion