Airways, Safety and Strategy for SARS-CoV2

This is a special podcast episode with Dr Tim Leeuwenburg – who is one of the co-authors of the hot-of-the-press  Safe Airways Society paper on managing the Coronavirus in your hospital.

We discuss PPE, minimisation of aerosolization events and how we can optimise the human factors in this new world of SARS.

There is a lot in here about rural and remote strategy too.

Have a listen to the podcast and there are a number of resources we mention that are below.

The original MJA Safe Airways Society paper is here.

Dr Justin Morgenstern’s review of the statement is here at First10EM.

The St Emlyn’s podcast with Dr Cosentini is here

The Covid PPE Simulation paper out of Vancouver is here .

This paper contains a great illustration ond checklist for the set up for proper PPE and the contents of an airway kit and drug lists that should be ready and available in your isolation / negative pressure room for airway intubation.

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