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Good day to you all around the world.
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It's my privilege to join today to discuss airway management
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during the COVID-19 pandemic with a specific eye on special
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projects and ideas and people's pet peeves about how we
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can look after practitioners during this very tricky challenge that
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is before and all of us.
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My name is Roz Hofmeyr and I am the airway
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lead at the University of Cape Town's Department of Anesthesia
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and peri operative Medicine and I've been lied for our
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covid anesthesia, Airway intubation and retrieval team.
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You can reach out to me via twitter or email
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at ross dot Hofmeyr at u c t dot c
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0.0.0.0 or at ross Hofmeyr.
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And I'll give you selected references from this presentation at
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the end of the talk for you to download.
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So here in South Africa and particularly at the tip
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of Africa in Cape Town.
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We were somewhat geographically isolated from the start of the
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COVID-19 outbreak, which gave us a little bit of time
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to watch what was going on in the rest of
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the world to learn from many of you and to
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prepare our own response.
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As you can see, we had our first patients around
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march of 2020, but by the end of March we're
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beginning to get particularly quite busy sitting down in South
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Africa, we could really examine what we did know about
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the disease and about the pandemic and trying to learn
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from the findings of others.
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And obviously much of the world's response was based on
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the earlier work on the early SARS pandemic.
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What did we know at the time?
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Well, we were facing respiratory virus which we presume to
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have contact and droplet spread and which behaves a lot
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like a SARS.
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We expected it's behavior like SARS, although we recognize that
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it was probably more virulent, but a lot less lethal.
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Now, if you go back and look at the airway,
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work around SARS, then you'll immediately bump into this paper
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by train and colleagues, which looked at the so called
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area sold generating procedures and the increased risk of transmission
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to health care practitioners.
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We recognize from this work that there was an odds
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ratio about 6.6 for these practitioners involved in skills such
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as intubation to become ill with the respiratory illness.
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And so out of this grew this concept of being
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very cautious around aerosol generating procedures such as intubation, mask
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ventilation. But this actually grew to include quite a lot
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of other procedures as well.
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And there was a lot of uncertainty and a lot
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of uncertainty that led to a lot of fear.
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This dichotomy in the requirements for different kinds of PP
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led to principles whereby if one was working with covid
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patients where you weren't doing so called a GPS, then
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you could use one set of PPE simple droplet and
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contact precautions.
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But if you were going to intubate or manage an
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airway or do CPR or fiddle with the ventilator, then
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you would need to put on so called a g
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p p p E or a high level of PPE.
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Now one can really say that most of us at
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this stage, we're working on educated best guesses based on
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the available science with a lean towards caution.
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In fact, here is one of our congress chairs Eleanor
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Sullivan presenting in february last year in Cape Town, I'm
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sorry, in Pretoria, in South Africa and giving her recommendations
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on what we were thinking at the time would be
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effective for covid airway management.
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And many of these concepts have in fact stood the
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test of time because they were based on reasonably good
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science, but some of them have not.
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So let's delve a little bit deeper into that.
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Of course, around this time, worldwide hordes of guidelines are
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being produced just about everybody had their good ideas to
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share. And there was a lot of collaboration that was
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going on and we were able to take much of
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this material modified and adapted to suit the local needs.
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And for instance, we produced these socks or South African
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and the society guidelines, which I was the first author
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and of which we are still using.
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Although with some modifications, we presumed at the time that
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as anything else, we would spend a lot of our
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time working in hot and not hot zones.
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We would be able to go into infected areas or
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going to an operating theater to a covid anesthetic and
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we would be able to have safe zones outside which
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we could have personnel who would be safer from infection.
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And we based a lot of our thinking around this.
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We produce a lot of training material.
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We produce a series of videos which is used across
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the country, in fact elsewhere on the continent to help
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prepare people rapidly for the coming pandemic.
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We also use our experience and institute simulation to perfect
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these protocols to iterative.
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We work on improving them to train a lot of
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our staff and to dispel fear around the virus itself.
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Another very useful use for us of in situ simulation
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was to use it in the clinical areas that were
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being set up and dedicated to Covid, which allowed us
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to do systems testing in those areas and also test
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the ad hoc teams that would form and the multidisciplinary
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teams that would form as we anticipated, bringing in a
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lot of clinical staff from different disciplines.
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So in fact, by the time we started managing our
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first covid patients with severe covid pneumonia.
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By late March of 2020 we have a specialized anesthesia
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and retrieval team.
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And we developed a lot of hospital wide expertise across
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disciplines. And this really, really helped when we became very
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busy. One of the challenges that we experienced quite early
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in South Africa was a local shortage, which reflected the
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global shortage of PPE.
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And this led us to using some things like reusable
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goggles, reasonable respirators, filters, which you could use for a
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longer period of time, Unsterile surgical guns, which we could
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wash and reuse.
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And perhaps this early adoption of rigorous infection control practices,
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even though we were using multi use PPE might have
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been a strength which assisted us other strengths, which we
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can speak to was the fact that this iterative training
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and learning across disciplines broke down silos.
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It gave us a broad clinical experience that allowed us
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to form ad hoc teams very rapidly.
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And the integration and increased acceptance of simulation was a
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very, very powerful tool from us.
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So within our own institution, this is my hospital where
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I'm standing currently.
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Critics here in Cape Town, we found our experience is
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very similar to that experienced around the rest of the
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world. We found patients with severe, profound hypoxia, often despite
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being on high flow nasal oxygenation and having Pronin etcetera.
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In fact, our hospital was quite early to adopt the
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use of hypno and self pruning.
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And so many of these patients who we intubated our
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primary cause for intubation was respiratory failure, having already tried
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and failed high frequency nasal oxygenation.
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So by the time our intubation team was called to
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many of these patients, they were in extremist with very,
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very severe disease requiring invasive ventilation in the intensive care
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unit. Of course, as others have found, we had very,
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very profound the saturation these patients, despite what I believe
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to be a proficient and effective airway team bearing in
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mind that our airway team performing these interventions retrievals was
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all senior anesthesia trainees and specialists working on very tight
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protocols using ubiquitous video are endoscopy, which meant that we
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had very few difficult or failed airways across that entire
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group. What we did experience a lot of, as others
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have commented, is severe hypoglycemia as well as a lot
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of Perry induction hypertension and in fact, a fair number
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of cardiac arrest.
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About 1% of patients suffering a perry induction uh cardiac
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arrest. This led to a lot of patients requiring anna
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tropic support going forward into ICU.
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Now, if these experiences sound familiar to you, these challenges
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sound familiar.
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Hopefully that sets the tone for the rest of the
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talk. But if you'd like to learn more about how
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we managed our covid pandemic and our experience here at
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risk in Cape Town.
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These to open access papers in the South African Medical
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Journal are available to you or just drop me a
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line and I'll happily forward them to you.
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Now they say necessity is the mother of invention.
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And certainly there was a lot of well meaning invention
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around how to protect practitioners, particularly in South Africa.
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The main reasons we experience this was the dwindling PPE
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supplies and the fear around the PPE stocks running out
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and practitioners being exposed.
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A very, very common uh, innovation that we saw which
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emerged from various industries and a lot of different groups
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trying to be useful was these barrier devices, intubation boxes,
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uh, intubation screens and so forth.
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And, and a lot of industries support going into developing
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these things and trying to rapidly bring them into, into
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public practice.
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We had some concerns about this and a group of
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many of the people who are on this conference and
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speaking here, we got together and did a fairly early
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review of looking at the evidence behind these different devices.
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And we're a little bit disappointed to say that we
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really struggled to find a good evidence for the use
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of barrier devices, although there was a lot of heterogeneity
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between the different types and the methods of the studies.
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And we really called for better quality research and better
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quality evidence.
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I'm glad to say that a lot of that evidence
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has been forthcoming.
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The cry for more robust research has been met with
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good quality work, such as this paper by Biglia Tell,
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who showed with intubation boxes longer incubation times lower, first
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past success and concerning the damage to PPE of practitioners
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using the boxes.
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Other studies such as that of Simpson, looked at the
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very eloquently at the use of these boxes and the
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concern about secondary aerosolization, whereby gas and aerosols that are
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trapped around the patient inside the box might actually increase
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exposure of the practitioners who are involved.
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Although an interesting thing which has emerged and this has
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come from several papers and reflected here in this work,
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is the use of high volume extractions and not just
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normal suction, but high volume extraction with these boxes, which
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may well rapidly decrease the aerosol load, and that is
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potentially a very good place for us to look for
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winds in this field in the future.
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More recently found, and colleagues have published in the Canadian
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Journal, another simulation study, which again, particularly difficult airway models
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showed increased difficult intubation, more attempts, more optimization maneuvers required
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and again, breaches of PPE, which again is concerning so
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very well meaning idea in creating new barriers.
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Not so far been shown to be particularly valuable and
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may in fact be a concerning risk to our practitioners.
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Another area of uh innovation which we saw worldwide in
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which we did some work on here in South Africa
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as well.
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It was a conversion of non medical equipment into PPE
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and ventilation devices.
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So these uh, to my enthusiastic registrars here wearing full
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face snorkeling masks which have been modified with three D
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printed connectors to allow the application of standard uh respiratory
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filters so we can add a viral or bacteriological filter.
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And various authors have proposed the use of these devices
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for droplet and uh aerosol protection, particularly using high efficiency
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filters to give very good respiratory protection or in fact
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converting them for the useful noninvasive ventilation.
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Particularly interesting suggestion.
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Now there has been some good work, particularly in the
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laboratory looking at these options.
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And here is a very nice paper from Seligman and
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colleagues who used a full face snorkel masks, versace and
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FFB three mask advisor and showed that there was a
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lot less deposition uh fluorescent particles when performing basic skills
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using these two comparative devices.
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So perhaps there is some room to use these devices
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for effective protection.
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Of course, there a lot of questions and some of
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our own work has gone around this which is currently
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under review, looking at whether or not they are clinically
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usable, whether they are likely to fog.
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There's some work around the issues that might make communication
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quite difficult.
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But certainly this is an area that we can examine
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further. But the jury is to a certain extent.
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Still out now, some of the most fundamental work has
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been done looking not at laboratory but at real world
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outcomes of practitioners who involved in caring for covid patients
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and looking at the real world transmission of us and
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colleagues who are doing these skills.
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One of the largest studies to which many of us
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contributed data is the intubate covid study, which showed an
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overall incidence of covid 19 diagnosis or symptomatic isolation of
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about 10 to 11% for healthcare workers doing tracheal intubation.
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So, despite many of these health care workers, if you
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go and have a look at the study using personal
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protective equipment, there was still a significant and a concerning
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risk of transmission.
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Of course, it's very difficult to peel apart this transmission
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that might be in the workplace.
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Might be during intubation from general risk being in the
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hospital environment or from community spread again.
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Many of the uh faculty involved with this meeting and
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really friends of items were involved in writing this paper.
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Looking at controversies and airway management which showed some interesting
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trends around the use of various levels of PP and
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also high frequency nasal oxygenation.
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A great challenge with PPE is actually just defining what
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we mean because even a simple things such as an
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apron Oregon can have very different meanings in different places
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and we might be made of very different materials and
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the training in the donning and doffing might be different.
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And so it's very tricky to compare these things unless
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you can standardise I.
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P. C.
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Protocols and in fact your infection prevention control protocols need
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to be ideally standardized.
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I need to be very good because PP alone is
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not enough to reduce transmission.
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You need a very good protocol you can see with
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increasing degrees or increasing levels of PPE.
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There is a deep uh increasing levels causes of decreasing
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transmission. However, our own team was somewhat of an outlier
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and that we had no transmission at all during our
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first wave.
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And that's probably despite the fact that we only use
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about level two PPE got to do with the fact
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that we had very very strict I.
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P. C.
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Protocols and used a hot not hot kind of setting
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that we weren't in these environments for continuous basis.
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So this leads to the question about are we creating
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unintended consequences?
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Are we focusing too much on the procedures and not
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the principles protecting us against transmission?
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Uh And we're attributing too much attention to the gps
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and not enough to being in the clinical environment in
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the so called low risk settings which actually people spend
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much more time and are much more common.
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So in fact perhaps we are getting less transmission because
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although we are in a high risk setting we are
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low risk specialty in uh in anesthesia and critical care
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because we are so much more aware and often much
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more well protected in this great work by cooking colleagues
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shows that were good enough at looking after ourselves.
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But are we being diligent enough about looking after colleagues
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in the non critical care setting?
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In I.
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C. U.
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With all the patients intubated breathing through filters?
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Well that's really a very safe situation.
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So there is increasing evidence of aerosol spread which is
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both in the community setting and in the medical setting.
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We're probably quite familiar with the two examples of restaurants
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and diners in Korea and in china where there's pretty
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good evidence that different people sitting in the restaurant setting
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contracted covid through aerosolized rather than drop it spread.
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And then there's increasing good quality medical research into this
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new field of medical error biology, such as this work
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of Wilson.
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It'll which shows that even people who are breathing normally
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at rest or particularly people who are exercising or coughing
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or speaking or shouting actually generate more particulates and more
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aerosols than a common medical interventions such as high frequency
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nasal oxygenation or noninvasive positive pressure ventilation.
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Again, work by Brown recently published an anesthesia has shown
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that particularly with good quality intubation and excavation, particularly muscle
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relaxation. Actually there is a lot less production of aerosols
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than would happen with a patient who is coughing or
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breathing rapidly.
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So you're probably more at risk while taking consent for
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intubation. Then you are while performing the intubation itself.
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And this has led to a very nice commentary in
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the Lancet respiratory medicine earlier this month saying that perhaps
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we really need to take this concept of aerosol generating
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procedures out of our lexicon and just talk about the
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overall risk of aerosol spread of this disease.
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And we need to protect patients and practitioners thinking about
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the patient, risk the duration of the exposure, the health
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practitioners own, risk the proximity, and then the environment that
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we're in and by reducing our environmental risks of contamination,
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by improving things like ventilation, by separating people and ultimately,
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by eliminating the pathogen, we can do a lot more
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than just adding personal protective equipment.
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So in conclusion, perhaps to leave you with some ideas,
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I think that we need to today presume aerosol spread
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of Covid 19 or SARS COv two.
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We need to have equal protection for all of our
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practitioners who working in clinical areas.
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And we need to very carefully test the ideas and
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the assumptions that have led us to our ideas when
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we're trying to intubate, trying to introduce new concept.
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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
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I hope that I have not taken too much of
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your time.
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I'll be available to chat off line and take questions.
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Otherwise you're welcome to download and examine the selected references
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from this talk here.
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And I look forward to chatting with you further.