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About this webinar
This year, for the fifth time, the Association of Anaesthetists will host an Airway Webinar dedicated to Dr John Smith (deceased) with three keynote talks followed by a presentation to the winner of the award.
In putting together this webinar, Professor Kariem El-Boghdadly has consulted with the late Dr Smith’s widow, Professor Fang Gao from Birmingham. His wish, as articulated to her, was for an award to be presented by the Association of Anaesthetists, for the best paper about airway management (research, education and patient safety) published in Anaesthesia from authors from anywhere in the world.
The Top Airway paper will be voted on by the Board of the Association and the Editors and Associate Editors and the winner announced at the webinar - the winner will be invited to summarise their work and follow-up planned.
This year's theme is New understanding of old problems
Latest evidence on tracheal intubation, rapid sequence induction and emergency front-of-neck airway
Organisers: Prof Kariem El-Boghdadly, London; Dr Matt Wiles, Editor in Chief, Anaesthesia
Chair: Prof Kariem El-Boghdadly, London
Programme
Introduction - Prof Kariem El-Boghdadly, London
Classification of videolaryngoscopy - Dr Martin Petzold, Consultant anaesthetist, intensivist and senior clinical researcher at the Centre of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf.
Contemporary RSI: the SECURE study - Dr Thomas Davies, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in anaesthesia, Queen Mary University of London
The emergency front-of-neck registry - Dr Sejal Modasia, ST6 Anaesthetist, Addenbrookes, Cambridge.
Presentation by the Winner of the John Smith Airway Award 2026
