Amrita Complex Airway Symposium

Highlights

“Adieu to Didactic lectures- Lets learn from our Patients and Each other!”

• Central airway Obstructions : Near total airway collapse for salvage interventional procedures-How will you anesthetize, ventilate and oxygenate?
• Role of ECMO in Complex airways- How and When to initiate, What troubles to expect with ECLS?
• Paediatric spectrum of airway challenges: Syndromic children with anticipated difficult airway andneonatal tracheo-esophageal fistula management
• Heart First or the airway First? Case based discussion: Children with congenital heart disease,rings, slings and other causes of airway compromise
• From Imagination to Visualisation: Virtual Bronchoscopy and 3D reconstruction for easyunderstanding of complex airway pathologies.
• Embrace team-based approach: Through the panel discussion with the multidisciplinary team ofInterventional Pulmonologist, Anesthesiologist, ENT and Head and Neck surgeons and thoracicsurgeon: Train to think as one TEAM

About Us:

• Core member of the multidisciplinary airway team supporting interventional pulmonology and thoracic surgery and high risk head and Neck surgery cases with intrathoracic pathology and ECLSsupport.
• Certified faculty led Trans-esophageal echocardiography support for complex cardiac surgery and non cardiac surgical emergencies.
• Centre of excellence for HOCM, valve repair and acute aortic syndromes
• Integral part of the robust Paediatric Heart Programme: Complex congenital heart surgeries, post cardiotomy ECMOs
• Support for non-operating room ECLS
• Cardiac Anesthesia consultant led cardiac critical care in both adult and paediatric intensive care units
• Team support for Cardiac patients undergoing non cardiac surgery
• Combined surgery with uro-oncology and head and Neck oncology team
• National and international publications
• Anesthesia for Robotic cardiac and thoracic surgeries
• Amrita Heart Transplantation programme
• Support for complex interventional cardiology procedures like- PDA stenting, MAPCA coiling, device closures, TAVR, TEVAR, Mitraclip, EP ablations, AICD

Venue : Amriteswari Hall, 2^nd Tower, 5^th floor, Amrita Hospital, Kochi

Training we offer:

• DM programme for cardiac anesthesia- 2 seats yearly
• Fellowship programme- 2 year FIACTA programme and 1 year Institutional fellowship programme for post MD Anesthesia candidates.
• 1 year Fellowship in paediatric cardiac intensive care (1 year at Amrita Hospital and 1 year at IJN hospital Malaysia )-partnership programme with Children’s Heartlink 

State of the art facilities:

• Operating room
• TEE machine-3D epic CVX and Epic 7c and affinity machines with 2D and 3D adult and paediatric probes
• TEG/ROTEM
• Sonosite with vascular and curvilinear probes
• Adult and paediatric flexible bronchoscopes
• Percutaneous Tracheostomy kits, PAC-CCO
• V60
• Lung isolation equipments
• Manual jet ventilator
• HFOV machine
• High flow nasal oxygenation therapy equipments and modern ventilators.

Contact:

[email protected]
Anesthesia Office: 04842856162