Airway Management Academy: A global initiative to increase patient safety during airway management by medical education

The Anesthesiologist’s Role in Teaching Airway Management to Nonanesthesiologists

“…What it means to be proficient in airway management, who should be teaching airway management skills, where is the best place to learn, what is the role of simulation and nonclinical teaching, which techniques should be emphasized, and what the likely paths forward are given the ongoing disruption in traditional practice are addressed. Although education theory and teaching methods clearly are important considerations when discussing adult learning, they have been covered elsewhere with respect to airway management training and are not reviewed in depth [20][21][22].…”

It is always the same: The urgent does not give us the time for the important – The educational dilemma

“…13 Realizing that teaching airway management, the core competence of an anesthesiologist is not only the knowledge of anatomy and how some devices work, and learning some skills to place a tube into the trachea, airway disasters with fatal outcome for our patients happens due to the loss of situational awareness, poor communication skills and non-functioning teams despite being experienced specialists in their field. Dr. Huitnik provides his 12 theses on how to improve airway management teaching from the "common problems during airway management crisis" over the "current controversies in airway management" to "the power of multimedia as a tool for teaching".…”