Webinar #23 | “Merging Fear with Difficulty: Taking Charge of the Airway”
Webinar #23: “Merging Fear with Difficulty: Taking Charge of the Airway”
The University of the Philippines
in partnership with
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) and
UP Manila NIH National Telehealth Center
in cooperation with
UP Manila College of Medicine and
UP Philippine General Hospital
would like to invite you to join the Fight Against COVID-19!
The Webinar Series “STOP COVID DEATHS: VIRTUAL GRAND ROUNDS”
– the very first Online Medicine Grand Rounds in the Philippines-
is scheduled EVERY FRIDAY from 12nn to 2pm.
Webinar #23: “Merging Fear with Difficulty: Taking Charge of the Airway”
Dr. Marie Christelle S. Endencia
Chief Resident, Department of Anesthesiology
Philippine General Hospital
September 25, 2020 (Friday) 12nn
Guest Speaker: Dr. Norbert Lingling Uy
Dean, College of Medicine
University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center
Discussant: Dr. Loreto A. Fellizar
Prof. and Past Chair,
Dept. of Anesthesiology
UP- Philippine General Hospital
Reactors:
Dr. Albert B. Albay, Jr.
Consultant, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Department of Medicine, UP-PGH
Peter M. Jimenez
COVID-19 Survivor
A difficult airway is defined as the clinical situation in which a conventionally trained anesthesiologist experiences difficulty with upper airway ventilation, endotracheal intubation, or both. Practice guidelines for management of difficult airway assist airway experts on the best approach to manage an anticipated or unanticipated difficult airway. However, patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection requiring tracheal intubation with difficult airway present a unique challenge because current guidelines recommending awake endotracheal intubation in difficult airway scenarios causes an increased risk of infecting health care workers in this aerosol-generating procedure.
