SAS 2025 Welcome and Introductory talk

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

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

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

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 different scalpel techniques for neck rescue. He is joined by Andy Higgs, Thy Do, Scott Weingart, Reza Nouraei, David Vokes and Adam Rehak.

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

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 challenges of threatened airway management from the point of injury to discharge from hospital.

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.

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