9th OXFORD REGION AIRWAY GROUP MEETING

9th OXFORD REGION AIRWAY GROUP MEETING

Friday 19th June 2009
Postgraduate Centre, RBH

Chair: Dr Benham

 

  1. Introduction

SB thanked Dr Kapila for organising and hosting the scientific meeting.This was the second time Reading had played host, and like last time made it a joint meeting with our ENT colleagues - which proved a great success..

 

  1. Airway Workshops

    1. The Oxford Difficult Airway Workshop is being held on June26th, and this time Drs Mridula Rai and Alex Marfin are organising it.

    2. AAGBI winter and annual meetings workshops are still being organised by Dr Marfin and Dr Dravid. Interested trainers were invited to speak to them if they wished to help out.

 

  1. ORAG research activities

Several issues were raised here. It was intimated that several research projects had finished in Oxford - The i-gel study, and the Airtraq study There was the possibility of doing a further Airtraq study(nasal intubation). The Gliderite tube study was continuing.

 

  1. Oxford Regional Airway Website

Dr Rangasami paid tribute to Dr Karthik Ponnusamy (currently ST4 in Oxford) who had worked very hard on the ORAG website- and the Chair thanked them both for their work. Since the last meeting, Dr Popats new airway book(of which many members of ORAG had written chapters) Difficult Airway Management, was now also available on the website. There was discussion about getting the case presentations from ORAG meetings on the website - and with appropriate consent issues, this was regarded as a good thing.

 

 

 

 

  1. Any Other Business

 

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    1. The meeting was closed with an agreement to meet again in the autumn. Possible venues for next meeting - Milton Keynes, or a joint meeting with our Leicester colleagues.

    2. Dr Benham raised the issue of succession. In the past, opportunities for someone else to take over as Chair of ORAG had been offered, but no names had come forward. One possibility is for a 'Deputy Chair' post could be created to allow a transition from the current Chair over a period of a year. Anyone interested in the post, to submit their name to the current Chair before the next meeting.

 

Dr S W Benham. 20th June 2009 stuart.benham@nda.ox.ac.uk