HEAD & NECK AIRWAYS GROUP
This webpage holds information about the 'Aintree Head and Neck Airways Group'. The reason for the development of the group, the groups terms of reference and minutes from the groups meetings.
This page will also be a repository for any interesting head and neck 'Airway' management information, articles, diagrams and photographs.
The Aintree Head and Neck Airways group was founded initially as a response to a patient safety incident involving a tracheostomy at another hospital. The group wanted to make sure that the Head and Neck unit at Aintree utilised the best practice for head and neck airway management. Click on the link below to see the planning and development document.
Planning and Development of the Aintree Head & Neck Airways Group
Click on the above for the Airways Newsletter
Airways Group meeting minutes:
The minutes from the Aintree Head & Neck Airways group have been added below in chronological order - click on the links!
Aintree Tracheostomy guidelines:
The Aintree Head and Neck Airways group played a significant role in the development of the new Tracheostomy clinical guideline at Aintree. This document was put together by June Carr and the Critical Care Outreach Team at Aintree. Click on the link below to read the guidelines.
Aintree Tracheostomy Guidelines
Emergency Trachy Management - Patent upper airway
Emergency Trachy Management - Laryngectomy
The Airways group felt that a significant way to improve the safety of patients with a tracheostomy or laryngectomy would be for patient information posters going above the patients bed - enabling emergency services vital / life saving information in an instant.
Click on the links below to see the posters
This patient has a Laryngectomy poster.
This patient has a Tracheostomy poster.
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