Key result
A 15-minute tea trolley session offers anaesthetists a cheap alternative to formal difficult airway training.
Why the study?
The 4th National Audit Project recommended maintaining airway skills of trainee and consultant anaesthetists with regular education and training.
Describes a novel, low-cost 'tea trolley' approach to maintaining difficult airway skills for anaesthetists during clinical shifts.
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May support brief in-situ airway training; leaves open impact on clinical outcomes and skill retention.
The 4th National Audit Project (NAP4) recommended that the airway skills of trainee and consultant anaesthetists are maintained with regular education and training 1. We have developed a difficult airway ‘tea trolley’ for practising asleep/awake fibreoptic intubation and needle cricothyroidotomy that provides a cheap alternative to formal training courses (Fig. 1). Each ‘tea trolley’ teaching session is run by two anaesthetists, one of whom takes over the intra-operative care of a stable patient, releasing the listed anaesthetist for a 15-min teaching session in the anaesthetic room with the other, after which tea and cake are provided.
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O'Farrell et al. (2014) studied Difficult airway training. 'Tea trolley' difficult airway training vs. Formal training courses was evaluated. A 15-minute 'tea trolley' teaching session provides a cheap alternative to formal training courses for anaesthetists practising difficult airway skills.
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