Safe Airway Society Podcasts

S8E3 SAS 2025 - A Patient Journey Case Study from the Roadside to the ICU

David Anderson leads an interactive discussion on the airway related escapades of a patient from the roadside to the ICU.

S8E2 SAS 2025 - Airway Literature Exposed

Lachlan Miles takes us on a wild ride through the airway literature - mine the methods!

S8E1 SAS 2025 Welcome and Introductory talk

Matt James wecomes delegates to SAS 2025 Noosa. Adam Rehak gives an entertaining talk on the history of SAS.

S7E5 SAS 2024 - The Evolving Debate in Neck Rescue - Scalpel vs Scalpel

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 expert panel through the relative merits of…

S7E4 SAS 2024 - Airway SIG Update

Linda Beckmann, the chair of the ANZCA/ASA/NZSA Airway Special Interest Group, gives an update about the group's activities.

S7E3 SAS 2024 - Threatened Airway Challenges - from Roadside to Extubation

Adam Rehak tells a cautionary tale of misadventure after the AFL Grand Final to demonstrate the complexities of airway injury. An interprofessional panel drawn from the audience guides us through the…

S7E2 SAS 2024 - Recognising and Managing the Physiologically Difficult Airway

Anoushka Perera leads a session on the physiologically difficult airway. Jared Mosier, author of the seminal 2015 paper on the topic, is joined by Kirstin Fraser and Chris McLenachan on the panel.

S7E1 SAS 2024 - Acknowledgement of Country and President's address - Adam Rehak and Louise Ellard

SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2024.

S6E6 SAS 2023 - After airway management - learning from airway events - panel

S6E5 SAS 2023 - Unrecognised oesophageal intubation - Nick Chrimes Adam Rehak

S6E4 SAS 2023 - Airway SIG update - Linda Beckmann

S6E3 SAS 2023 - Is the use of DL still defensible in 2023? - panel

Andrew Robinson leads a discussion on this higly topical and somewhat controversial topic. Tim Cook, David Story, Erin Foulsham, Ben Olesnicky, Ruth Parsell and Phil Visser make up the…

S6E2 SAS 2023 - High performance airway management - more than your left arm - Victoria Brazil

Internationally renowned human factors expert Victoria Brazil describes how a group of highly functioning individuals can become a high performance airway team.

S6E1 SAS 2023 - Acknowledgement of country and Presidents address - Adam Rehak Louise Ellard

SAS Secretary Adam Rehak and SAS President Louise Ellard welcome delegates to SAS 2023.

S5E4 Airwaves Ep 4 - The Dark Art of Facemask Ventilation

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 back to basics to discuss the what is arguably the…

S5E3 Airwaves Ep 3 - Hyperangulated Videolaryngoscopy Virtual Workshop

Recorded 17th January 2021 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. Use of a videolaryngoscope with a hyperangulated blade has the…

S5E2 Airwaves Ep 2 - The Truth About Videolaryngoscopy

Recorded 12th January 2021 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. Despite video laryngoscopy now being a widely available tool for…

S5E1 Airwaves Ep 1 - COVID: From Crisis to Catalyst

Recorded 9th Nov 2020 Full video livestream of all Airwaves Podcasts is available on the Safe Airway Society YouTube channel. COVID-19 has challenged the way we conduct airway management. As well as…

S4E11 SAS 2022 - PUMA Prevention of Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation Guidelines

Andy Higgs and Tim Cook describe the PUMA Prevention of Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation Guidelines and their rationale.

S4E12 SAS 2022 - The Anatomy of Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation

Tim Cook uses individual cases and analysis of the systems, processes and human factors involved in unrecognised oesophageal intubation to investigate why this tragic occurrence is still a problem…