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Yearlong fellowships in airway management are beginning to materialize in the United States to address the need for more intense training beyond standard residency rotations.
Highlights the need for dedicated, extended airway management training and the emergence of yearlong fellowships in the United States.
Airway management is an expected skillset of anesthesiologists—and rightfully so. Anesthesiologists are considered airway management experts. Although this is an expected skill, usually there is not a concentrated period of time dedicated to airway management in in residency. It is expected that you become facile with airway management “along the way” in your residency. More recently residencies are providing airway rotations ranging from 2 weeks to a month in the residency. Given the range of cases that involve advanced airway techniques, I submit that 1 month of intense airway management is not enough to prepare the resident for the breadth of cases involving complex management skills and techniques. As such, yearlong fellowships in airway management are beginning to materialize in the United States.
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Tracey Straker (2019) conducted an editorial in Airway management training. Airway management fellowships was evaluated. Yearlong fellowships in airway management are beginning to materialize in the United States to address the need for more intense training beyond standard residency rotations.
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