Speakers
Professor Andy Higgs
Professor Ellen O’Sullivan
Exhibition Floor
This hands-on workshop, in collaboration with Difficult Airway Society (DAS) will cover the latest evidence and practical application of videolaryngoscopy (VL) and Video-Assisted Fibreoptic Intubation (VAFI) in the critically ill in collaboration team from Difficult Airway Society.
Session aims:
Ideal for clinicians looking to enhance their airway management skills with advanced tools and techniques tailored for high-risk critical care environments
Andy Higgs is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine in Warrington Hospitals, Cheshire, having trained in Liverpool, North West England and Melbourne, Australia. He has a long-standing interest in airway management, especially extubation and in the ICU. Andy was Clinical Director of ICU between 2005 and 2007 and joint Clinical Lead Anaesthesia/ICU from 2007 to 2011. He is a faculty member and contributor to the Aintree Difficult Airway Management course. He co-authored the Difficult Airway Society Extubation Guidelines (2012) and chairs the joint Royal College of Anaesthetists/Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine/DAS group, aiming to produce a guideline for Airway Management in the Critically Ill.
Ellen O'Sullivan trained in anaesthesiology and intensive care in UK and USA and is now a consultant anaesthesiologist at St James’s Hospital Dublin, Ireland affiliated to Trinity College Dublin. She specialises in airway management and is director of the Fellowship in Advanced Airway Management and Simulation.
She is past president of the Difficult Airway Society (DAS), and was appointed DAS Professor of Anaesthesia & Airway Management.
Ellen is past president of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland and is now Airway Lead Advisor to the College & runs the CAI national airway training. She has a substantial portfolio of clinically relevant research. She has developed a worldwide reputation in airway management and lectures and teaches workshops internationally. She was a member of the ASA Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway and also sits on the Project for Universal Airway Guidelines Group (PUMA) guideline group. She is an Executive Director of WAAM (World Alliance for Airway Management) and co-chaired the World Airway Meeting, WAMM1, in Dublin 2015 and WAMM2 in Amsterdam 2019. A particular interest of Prof O’ Sullivan’s is Global Anaesthesia and supporting education and training in low & middle income countries. This has led to her involvement in a number of projects in Malawi & Uganda including the Global Capnography Project (GCAP).
Dr Fauzia Mir is a consultant Anaesthetist at St. George’s Hospital, London. She is lead for Head and Neck anaesthesia at St.George’s and is Treasurer of the Difficult Airway Society, UK.
Dr. Mir completed a Fellowship in Medical Education at Royal London Hospital. Her interest in difficult airway management and anaesthesia for airway surgery began at an early stage in her career. During her post as Treasurer of DAS, she led the organisation of the DAS 2017 meeting in London and co-organized the DAS 2020 webinar. She was also in the organising committee for WAMM in 2019.
She is a regular faculty in advanced airway courses regionally, nationally and internationally, and a co-author of the DAS Awake Tracheal Intubation Guidelines launched in November 2018. She has special interest in HFNO, jet ventilation and airway management in trauma.