We describe our experience with the provision of an emergency airway service by specialist-grade anaesthestists to assist the primary physicians who are the first-line personnel in airway management and resuscitation in our 1249-bedded multi-disciplinary, tertiary hospital.
While retaining a 'primary physician team resuscitation' approach, the emergency airway service provided a scope of care equivalent to both cardiac and medical emergency teams as required, at a lower cost.
Martin Skegg Continuing chronicle of life with Buffalo Airways, who service the frostbound expanses of Canada's north-west, often in vintage aircraft.
One of Africa's biggest airlines, South African Airways, began regular service between Lagos, Nigeria, and New York, ending a stretch of almost six anda half years without direct flights between the commercial capital of the oil-rich nation and the United States.
On the airways, obesity public service announcements are lining up while a "Truth" campaign about tobacco languishes for lack of money.
A preoperative awake fiberoptic examination of the airway by ENT services is advisable.
In our study, subjects with moderate and severe airway obstruction used healthcare services more frequently than patients with mild obstruction.
Many non-hospital health centres providing basic surgical procedures, but almost none had uninterrupted access to electricity, running water, oxygen and basic supplies for resuscitation, airway management and obstetric services.
In the short term, British Airways may switch its East Africa services to Dar-es-Salaam, ironically the city that has recently been erased from BA's route map.
In March British Airways introduced a thrice-weekly service between London and Sarajevo.
THE BASICS Fast-expanding Qatar Airways (www.qatarairways.com) began direct nonstop service from Kennedy Airport to Doha last year.
