Head and Neck Anesthesia and Advanced Airway Management Fellowship

AUGUST

General principles of H&N anesthesia

Nekhendzy

ASA difficult airway algorithm: best practice strategies for success

Nekhendzy

Critical decision-making in ASA difficult airway algorithm

Nekhendzy

SEPTEMBER

Transnasal humidified rapid-insufflation ventilatory exchange (THRIVE): mechanisms of action and its use in difficult airway management

Nekhendzy

Upper airway anatomy relevant for the anesthesiologist. Preoperative endoscopic airway examination (PEAE).

Dewan, Nekhendzy

Surgeon’s perspective on difficult airway. ENT airway tools and operating laryngoscopes.

Damrose

Awake tracheostomy. Tracheostomy tubes and care.

Dewan

OCTOBER

Flexible scope intubation: fundamental technical skills, indications and contraindications, patient selection and preparation. Difficult flexible scope intubation.

Saxena, Drover, Mittal, Cheng

HANDS-ON: Flexible scope intubation

Saxena, Drover, Mittal, Cheng

Patient preparation for awake intubation and awake intubation techniques

Saxena, Mittal, Cheng

Advanced flexible scope intubation techniques. Supraglottic airways – ETT exchange.

Mittal

HANDS-ON: SGA-ETT exchange

Saxena, Drover, Mittal, Cheng

NOVEMBER

Controlled hypotension

Sheehan

Intraoperative EEG monitoring

Drover

Anesthetic considerations for a eriatric patient

Drover

DECEMBER

PKPD principles relevant for the anesthesiologist

Lemmens

Opioid pharmacology. Total intravenous anesthesia.

Shafer

Extubation of the difficult airway and management of the difficult airway in ICU

Brun

JANUARY

Difficult airway and obesity

Sheehan

PKPD of anesthetic drugs in obesity

Lemmens

HANDS-ON: Video laryngoscopy, Rigid fiberoptic stylets, Combined endoscopy techniques

Saxena, Mittal, Cheng, Drover

CASE-BASED DISCUSSION: Management of the obstructed airway

Nekhendzy, Sheehan

FEBRUARY

Clinical evaluation of the OSA patient. Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE).

Capasso

Obstructive sleep apnea and the anesthesiologist. Anesthetic considerations for OSA surgery.

Doufas, Nekhendzy

OSA surgery: surgical decision-making. Maxillo-mandibular advancement (MMA) and adult craniofacial surgery.

Liu

CASE-BASED DISCUSSION

Nekhendzy, Saxena

MARCH

Anatomy and physiology of the LMA function and insertion. Supraglottic airways.

Butwick, Goldhaber-Fiebert

HANDS-ON: SGAs and intubating LMA

Butwick, Goldhaber-Fiebert, Nekhendzy, Mittal

Selected topics in endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) and pituitary surgery relevant for the anesthesiologist. Anesthetic considerations for FESS and pituitary surgery.

Kim, Phillips, Saxena

Cranial base anatomy and selected topics in otologic/neurotologic surgery relevant for the anesthesiologist. Anesthetic considerations for otology/neurotology. Principles of the safe use of PPV through the supraglottic airways.

Jan, Nekhendzy

APRIL

Anesthetic considerations for laryngologic surgery. Jet ventilation: principles and practice.

Nekhendzy

Lasers and phonomicrosurgery. Laser ETTs.

Sung, Nekhendzy

Transnasal humidified rapid-insufflation ventilatory exchange (THRIVE): applications for laryngologic surgery. THRIVE and laser precautions.

Nekhendzy

Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) monitoring and RLN injury. Anesthetic considerations for thyroid and parathyroid surgery. NIM tubes.

Noel, Cheng

CASE-BASED DISCUSSION

Saxena, Mittal, Cheng, Hutton

MAY

Management of the difficult airway in the emergency department. Prehospital airway management.

Wagner, Saxena

HANDS-ON: Retrograde intubation

Tanaka, McAvoy

Human factors in airway management

Goldhaber-Fiebert

Pediatric difficult airway

Ramamurthi

JUNE

CASE-BASED DISCUSSION: Pediatric difficult airway, airway foreign bodies.

Ramamurthi, Claure

Selected topics in H&N cancer surgery relevant for the anesthesiologist. Transoral robotic surgery (TORS).

Holsinger

Anesthesia for TORS and major H&N cancer and free flap reconstruction surgery

Hutton

CASE-BASED DISCUSSION: Airway management in ICU and ED

Brun, Wagner

JULY

Patient for facial cosmetic surgery: working as a team. Cosmetic septorhinoplasty. Anesthetic considerations for facial cosmetic surgery.

Most, Pepper, Nekhendzy

Anesthetic and airway management of patients with epidermolysis bullosa

Mittal

Selected topics in transfusion medicine

Panigrahi

CASE-BASED DISCUSSION

Hutton, Sheehan, Mittal, Cheng