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Airway Resources in Australasian Anaesthesia
Australasian Anaesthesia (the “Blue Book”) is a biennial publication of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and will be familiar to the majority of SIG members. Articles are sourced from New Zealand and all Australian states as well as the College of Intensive Care Medicine and the Faculty of Pain Medicine. Topics are wide-ranging but will
only be included if they are of interest to anaesthetists. Alongside the standard subjects that pertain to our practice, articles on medical education, medico-legal matters, examination techniques, health management and even veterinary anaesthesia have been included.
The Blue Book relies on a team of regional and specialty editors and an ANZCA publications manager to bring it to publication. All FANZCA and FFPMANZCA specialists receive a digital version of Australasian Anaesthesia or, by request, a hard-copy. The most recent edition has also been distributed to six anaesthesia colleges outside of Australasia.
It should come as no surprise that articles on airway management or equipment feature prominently in the Blue Book. Indeed, airway-related articles are featured first in the book. In the accompanying table, airway articles and their authors are shown from the 2009 edition to the most recent edition (2017).
| Airway fires in the operating room | Dr Rebecca Branch, Dr Jeremy Cooper | 2009 |
| Cuff pressure monitoring in paediatric laryngeal mask airways: Is it worth the pain? | Professor Britta Von Ungern-Sternberg | 2009 |
| Reappraisal of adult airway management | Dr Keith Greenland | 2011 |
| Cricoid pressure: Is there any evidence? | Dr Christopher Acott | 2011 |
| Trends in paediatric tracheal tubes | Dr Martyn Lethbridge | 2011 |
| Jet ventilation and anaesthesia – A practical guide to understanding jet ventilation and its current applications in clinical anaesthesia practice | Dr Sasanka Dhara | 2011 |
| Evolution of airway training at a large metropolitan teaching hospital | Dr Jon Graham, Dr Samantha Leung, Dr Parameswaran Pillai, Professor David Story, Dr Francis Parker, Dr Daryl Jones | 2013 |
| Videolaryngoscopes and the “Fremantle score” | Dr Mei-Mei Westwood, Dr Alex Swan, Dr James English | 2013 |
| Re-examining rapid sequence induction | Dr Andrew Goldberg, Dr Ian Harley | 2015 |
| Which videolaryngoscope do you choose? | Dr William Pierre Bradley, Associate Professor John Moloney, Dr Ian Richardson | 2015 |
| Tracheal extubation: Strategies for predicting and managing extubation of the difficult upper airway in the non-obstetric adult patient | Dr Fayavar Ajvadi, Dr Michael Edwards, Dr Keith Greenland, Professor Michael Irwin, Professor Andre Van Zundert | 2015 |
| Awake videolaryngoscopy | Dr Vazira Moosajee, Dr Scott Douglas, Dr Iljaz Hodzovic | 2017 |
| Airway management after cervical spine surgery: A review of the literature | Dr Jonathan Nicholson, Dr William Pierre Bradley, Dr Tish Stefanutto, Dr Glen Downey, Lauren Berkow | |
| Tracheostomy crisis management | Dr James Anderson, Dr Travis Leahy | 2017 |
| Transnasal humidified rapid insufflation ventilatory exchange (THRIVE) technique in paediatric anaesthesia practice | Dr Susan Humphreys, Dr Derek Rosen, Dr Andreas Schibler | 2017 |
Airway-related topics, such as ventilation strategies, ECMO and lung transplantation, for example, also feature in Australasian Anaesthesia. Readers may access past edition of Australasian Anaesthesia by clicking here.
Finally, I appeal Airway Management SIG members to consider writing an article for the next edition in 2019. To obtain information for authors, and to make comments or questions, please contact our office via email.
Richard Riley
Chief editor, Australasian Anaesthesia
*Richard is an anaesthetist at Royal Perth Hospital and is Clinical Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Western Australia. He is Chief Editor of “Australasian Anaesthesia” (ANZCA) and “Manual of Simulation in Healthcare” (Oxford) and consults to MDA National, Medical Board of Australia and was medical advisor (simulation) to the Chief Medical Officer of WA.
