Safe Airway Society Podcasts
Episodes
SAS 2025 - A Patient Journey Case Study from the Roadside to the ICU
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Anderson leads an interactive discussion on the airway related escapades of a patient from the roadside to the ICU.
SAS 2025 - Airway Literature Exposed
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lachlan Miles takes us on a wild ride through the airway literature - mine the methods!
SAS 2025 Welcome and Introductory talk
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matt James wecomes delegates to SAS 2025 Noosa. Adam Rehak gives an entertaining talk on the history of SAS.
SAS 2024 - The Evolving Debate in Neck Rescue - Scalpel vs Scalpel
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the needle vs scalpel debate still raging on (at least in Australasia) SAS bravely decides to avoid the issue. Instead, Nick Chrimes leads an exp...
SAS 2024 - Airway SIG Update
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Beckmann, the chair of the ANZCA/ASA/NZSA Airway Special Interest Group, gives an update about the group's activities.
SAS 2024 - Threatened Airway Challenges - from Roadside to Extubation
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Rehak tells a cautionary tale of misadventure after the AFL Grand Final to demonstrate the complexities of airway injury. An interprofessional pa...
SAS 2024 - Recognising and Managing the Physiologically Difficult Airway
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anoushka Perera leads a session on the physiologically difficult airway. Jared Mosier, author of the seminal 2015 paper on the topic, is joined by Kir...
SAS 2024 - Acknowledgement of Country and President's address - Adam Rehak and Louise Ellard
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2024.
SAS 2023 - After airway management - learning from airway events - panel
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SAS 2023 - Unrecognised oesophageal intubation - Nick Chrimes Adam Rehak
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SAS 2023 - Airway SIG update - Linda Beckmann
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SAS 2023 - Is the use of DL still defensible in 2023? - panel
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Robinson leads a discussion on this higly topical and somewhat controversial topic. Tim Cook, David Story, Erin Foulsham, Ben Olesnicky, Ruth P...
SAS 2023 - High performance airway management - more than your left arm - Victoria Brazil
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Internationally renowned human factors expert Victoria Brazil describes how a group of highly functioning individuals can become a high performance ai...
SAS 2023 - Acknowledgement of country and Presidents address - Adam Rehak Louise Ellard
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2023.
Airwaves Ep 5 - Capnography: Essential Everywhere
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 11th Dec 2023 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. In this episode, panel ...
Airwaves Ep 4 - The Dark Art of Facemask Ventilation
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 19th Jun 2023 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. In this episode we go b...
Airwaves Ep 3 - Hyperangulated Videolaryngoscopy Virtual Workshop
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 17th January 2021 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. Use of a videolaryn...
Airwaves Ep 2 - The Truth About Videolaryngoscopy
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 12th January 2021 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. Despite video laryn...
Airwaves Ep 1 - COVID: From Crisis to Catalyst
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 9th Nov 2020 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. COVID-19 has challenged ...
SAS 2022 - PUMA Prevention of Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation Guidelines
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Higgs and Tim Cook describe the PUMA Prevention of Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation Guidelines and their rationale.
SAS 2022 - The Anatomy of Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Cook uses individual cases and analysis of the systems, processes and human factors involved in unrecognised oesophageal intubation to investigate...
SAS 2022 - Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation - Case Studies From the Roadside
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this session, MICA Paramedic Matthew Humar presents a local case of unrecognised oesophageal intubation; and using this case as a reference, discus...
SAS 2022 - Aerosol generating procedures - Are They Even Real?
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are we safe when we intubate COVID-19 patients? Are CPAP, high-flow oxygen, and intubation AGPs? Two years into this pandemic, what should we be doing...
SAS 2022 - Airway Innovators 3 - Ketamine in Fibre Optic Airway Management
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anaesthetists Bill Bestic and Adam Pasfield describe and demonstrate the use of ketamine for fibre-optic intubation, including via supraglottic airway...
SAS 2022 - Airway Innovators 2 - VAFI and FARSI
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anaesthetist Adam Rehak describes and demonstrates VAFI (video-assisted fibre-optic intubation) and FARSI (fibre-optic assisted rapid sequence inducti...
SAS 2022 - PUMA Guidelines Selected Highlights
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The mission of the Project for Universal Management of Airways (PUMA) is to create a single set of airway guidelines that provide consistent guidance ...
SAS 2022 - Prehospital Airway Management
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Anderson describes the current state of play with airway management in the prehospital setting. There are important differences between airway m...
SAS 2022 - Critical Care Airway Management
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Brewster describes the current state of play with airway management in the critical care setting, including a summary of the INTUBE study and th...
SAS 2022 - Airway Innovators 1- Going Tubeless - STRIVE HI
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ENT surgeon Georgie Harris and anaesthetist Drew Heffernan describe how they use high flow nasal oxygen to achieve tubeless airway surgery.
SAS 2022 - Human Factors in Airway Management
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this not-to-be-missed interactive session our hosts, Adam Rehak and Gerri Khong walk you through the good, the bad and the ugly of human factors in...
SAS 2022 - Acknowledgement of Country and Introduction - Jon Gatward, SAS PresidentSAS 2022 - Acknowledgement of Country and Introduction - Jon Gatward, SAS President
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Gatward, SAS President, leads the acknowledgement of country and introduces SAS 2022.
SAS 2021 Session 2.6 The threatened airway - the psychological impact of bad outcomes
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This session examines the psychological impact of critical airway incidents and explores processes to support resilience and wellbeing in teams dealin...
SAS 2021 Session 2.5 The threatened airway - ICU management and extubation
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A significant proportion of serious adverse airway events occur at extubation. In this session, an expert interprofessional panel emphasises that the ...
SAS 2021 Session 2.4 The threatened airway - management in the OR
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trading off competing risks can sometimes lead to "Perfect Plan Paralysis". There may not be a perfect primary plan. In any case, all techniques have ...
SAS 2021 Session 2.3 The threatened airway - management in the ED
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barriers to performing advanced airway management in the emergency department in Australia and New Zealand result in many unstable patients being tran...
SAS 2021 Session 2.2 The threatened airway ED assessment and triage
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this session, an expert interprofessional panel examines the decision making around how, when and where we manage patients presenting to the emerge...
SAS 2021 Session 2.1 The threatened airway in pre-hospital care
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the priorities and challenges in the pre-hospital management of the patient with a threatened airway? In this session, an expert interprofess...
SAS 2021 Session 1.3 Finding and exploiting learning opportunities
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finding opportunities to learn or maintain airway skills, especially those infrequently encountered during clinical care, can be challenging, and even...
SAS 2021 Session 1.2 Teaching Team Skills
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Airway management is a team sport. All members, not just the airway operator, are integral to safe and effective airway management. What teamwork skil...
SAS 2021 Session 1.1 Teaching procedural airway skills
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Considering the complexities of our era, how do we best approach the acquisition and maintenance of airway skills? In this session, an interprofession...
SAS 2022 and SAS/Coda Airway Workshops
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SAS President Jon Gatward and Coda founder Roger Harris discuss the program for the upcoming SAS 2022 meeting on September 11th 2022 and the SAS/Coda ...
SAS Podcasts - Tracheal intubation after failed first attempt in aeromedical retrieval
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Intensive Care Paramedic and SAS Board member Matthew Humar interviews Dr John Glasheen, Aeromedical Retrieval Physician, about his study: Successful...