Airway workshop
Providing you with the opportunity to obtain, maintain and enhance difficult airway management skills within a small group teaching environment.
This course is fully booked, please join the waiting list to be notified if a place becomes available. Alternatively, see also Airway Workshop on 3 June 2025.
Our in-person airway workshops provide you with the opportunity to obtain, maintain and enhance difficult airway management skills within a small group teaching environment. Supportive and expert faculty provide a hands-on and interactive approach to learning, enabling you to learn and practice core technical and non-technical skills including:
- flexible bronchoscopy
- supraglottic airway devices
- awake tracheal intubation
- videolaryngoscopy
- emergency front-of-neck access (eFONA)
- airway guidelines.
Appropriate for all grades of anaesthetists in training, specialty doctors and consultants.
Feedback from previous course delegates:
"Excellent airway course, a must for every anaesthetist!"
"Well organised and informative course with great small group teaching by knowledgeable trainers"
"Excellent breadth of difficult airway equipment and brilliant to practice FONA"
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration and refreshments |
| 09:30 - 09:40 | Welcome and aims of the workshop |
| 09:40 - 12:30 | Workshops: Groups rotate around three 50-minute practical workshops |
| Workshops start times: 50 mins per station | 09:40 - 10:30 | 10:30 - 11:20 | 11:20 - 11:40 | 11:40 - 12:30 |
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Station 1 | Flexible bronchoscopy |
Red | Green | Blue | |
| Station 2 | Supraglottic Airway Devices (SADs) | Blue | Red | Refreshments | Green |
| Station 3 | Airway guidelines | Green | Blue | Red |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 - 16:00 | Workshops: Groups rotate around three 50-minute practical workshops |
| Workshops start times: 50 mins per station | 13:15 - 14:05 | 14:05 - 14:55 | 14:55 - 15:10 | 15:10 - 16:00 |
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Station 1 | Awake tracheal intubation |
Red | Green | Blue | |
| Station 2 | Videolaryngoscopy | Blue | Red | Refreshments | Green |
| Station 3 | Emergency Front-of-Neck Access (eFONA) | Green | Blue | Red |
| 16:00 | Close of workshop |
Pricing
*Please note that the 'Student/Foundation Year' category places are fully booked on this course.
To be eligible for this category, FY1/2 doctors should be intending to embark on a career in anaesthetics/ICU/ED. For further information please call us on 020 7092 1673, or email events@rcoa.ac.uk.
Pricing Terms and Conditions
Payment must be made at the time of booking unless otherwise stated. The RCoA, FICM and FPM are unable to hold places on events without payment. Credit or debit card payments must be made online via our card payment handler Stripe, or by phone. We do not accept purchase orders or raise invoices for places on our events.
Discounts are available for some membership types at the rates stated above. You must be eligible for the discount both at the time of the booking and at the time of the event itself. We may ask for proof of your member status at any point. If you are unable to prove your entitlement to the discount we may charge you the full event rate, or invite you to update your membership status accordingly. In such a situation we may withhold access to the event until your updated payment clears, or your new membership status is confirmed.
Speakers
Dr Ravi Bhagrath is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Barts Health NHS Trust with a particular interest in anaesthesia for ENT surgery and cancer pre-assessment.
Ravi is a previous FRCA examiner and for the past 15 years has led on airway workshop teaching and training at the College. He teaches and lectures locally, regionally and internationally.
Ravi is a member of the Difficult Airway Society (DAS), a previous committee member and is currently their Honorary Secretary. He co-authored the 2015 DAS guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults, and the 2019 guidelines for awake tracheal intubation (ATI) in adults.
Accommodation
The RCoA have agreed a preferential rate with the Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury. If you would like to book using the RCoA rate click the link below where you will be able to select the hotel and dates required.
Please note: the rate per night may be increased by the hotel based on demand so we suggest booking as early as possible. Free cancellation is available up to 24 hours prior to check in. The terms and conditions are available to view on the hotel booking pages.
The RCoA accepts no responsibility for your booking or stay with the hotel. Any queries should be directed to the Hotel.
Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury - CLICK HERE to access the booking platform.