Recommendations of the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management: Teaching and Training of Airway Management Techniques

 

Ernst Zadrobilek, MD,¹ Schirin M. Missaghi, MD,² Klaus Krasser, MD,² Wolfgang Puchner, MD,³ and Friedrich Marian, MD⁴ (for the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management)

 

¹Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Chairman of the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management and Director of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Empress Elisabeth Hospital of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

²Staff Anesthetist and Intensive Care Physician, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Empress Elisabeth Hospital of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

³Staff Anesthetist and Intensive Care Physician, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hospital of the City of Linz, Linz, Austria.

⁴Anesthetist and Intensive Care Physician, Director of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Weinviertel Clinicum Mistelbach, Mistelbach, Austria.

 

Address correspondence and comments to Ernst Zadrobilek.

 

Received from the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management, Vienna, Austria.

 

Statements

Supported solely by the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management.

 

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the members of the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management for their valuable advices, comments, and suggestions during preparation of the manuscript before submission of the final version of these recommendations for publication in this journal.

 

Key Words

Recommendations: teaching and training of airway management techniques.

 

 

Published: August 30, 2009.

 

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The correct citation of these recommendations for reference is:

Zadrobilek E, Krasser K, Puchner W, Missaghi SM, Marian F (for the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management). Recommendations of the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management: teaching and training of airway management techniques. Internet Journal of Airway Management 5, 2008-2009.
Available from URL: http://www.adair.at/ijam/volume05/recommendations04/default.htm
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Last update: August 20, 2010.

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Summary

Introduction

Structured Teaching and Training of Anesthesia Residents

Anesthesia Residency Training and Assessment of Performance

Training Programs for Instructors

Continued Training of Staff Anesthetists

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