The Council was formed of one member from each Country and each Country was responsible for providing the Secretary with the name and contact details of the Council Member for that country. The Council Member must be a member of EAMS, be up-to-date with payment of the annual subscription and willing to fulfill the duties expected of the position.

COUNCIL MEETING AND ANNUAL DINNER

The Council Meeting was held in a conference room in the Sofitel hotel near to the ESA Conference Centre on Saturday 3rd June 17.30-19.15. Afterwards, in the same hotel, was the Annual Dinner for all EAMS members.

The Scientific Meeting was in the ESA Conference Centre on Sunday 4th June 2006.

8:30-10:00 Session One: Difficult clinical situations - philosophy and management. Chair: Dr Peter Biro

What to do after failed intubation in the paralysed patient: - Dr. Thomas Heidegger
Extubation after complex surgery and management of laryngospasm: - Dr. Richard M. Cooper (SAM lecture)
Airway management in Intensive Care Unit (including FOB recommendations, tracheal tube change and extubation) - Professor Flavia Petrini
Airway management of the morbidly obese patient: - Dr. Gregorios Voyagis

10:30-12:00 Session Two: Fiberoptic intubation. Chair: Prof. Pierre A. Diemunsch

The role of simulation in airway management: - Dr. Arnd Timmermann
My first steps in fiberoptic intubation: - Dr. Valentín Madrid
How to teach fiberscopeintubation simulation with Three dimensional CT scan reconstruction: - Professor Pierre A. Diemunsch
How can we get the scope ready without delay: - Dr. Carl Elvind Bjerkelund

14:00-15:30 Session Three: ENT: Chair: Dr. Valentín Madrid

Upper airway obstruction: Causes, investigation and preparation for airway management: - Dr. Michael S. Kristensen
Role of fiberscope in upper airway obstruction: - Dr. John E. Smith (DAS lecture)
Role of SADs in upper airway obstruction: - Dr. Dominique M. C. Boisson-Bertrand
Tracheal surgery; How to prevent problems: - Dr. Julio Lloréns Herrerias

16:00-17:30 Session Four. Extraglottic devices - have we gone too far? Chair: Dr. John Henderson

Supraglottic devices in laparoscopic cholecystectomy and other abdominal operations: - Dr. Corrado Cafaggi
We have gone too far?: - Dr. John Henderson
Which extraglottic devices should we support?: - Dr. Andreas Thierbach

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The AGM followed the Scientific Meeting on Sunday 4th June 2006.

Meeting of EAMS at the European Society of Anaesthesiology in Vienna on 28-31st May 2005. The specific contribution of EAMS was on Sunday 29th May.

08.30-10.00 EAMS Session 1 EAMSS1

What do we know about morbidity and mortality of airway management?
Dr John Henderson, Scotland
Dr Xavier Combes, France
Dr Ernst Zadrobilek, Austria
Professor Andranik, Ovassapian USA
Professor Ulrich Braun, Germany

10.30-12.00 EAMS Session 2 EAMSS2

Management of cannot-intubate-cannot-ventilate CICV
Dr Anne-Marie Cros, France
Dr Jonathan Hardman, UK - oxygenation and CICV
Professor Jean-Louis Bourgain, France - CICV in general surgical patients
Dr Andreas Thierbach, Germany - CICV in trauma
Dr Valentin Madrid, Spain - CICV in ENT patients

14.00-15.30 EAMS Session 3 EAMSS3

Obstetric anaesthesia and the difficult airway
Dr Geoffrey Sharwood-Smith, UK
Dr Gordon Lyons, UK - perspective from a single unit
Professor Pierre Diemunsch, France - For fibreoptic intubation
Dr Anne-Marie Cros, France - Against fibreoptic intubation

16.00-17.30 EAMS Session 4 EAMSS4

Professor Giulio Frova, Italy - Hollow introducers
Dr Markus Weiss, Switzerland - Video laryngoscopy
Dr Chandy Verghese, UK - C-trach
Professor Flavia Petrini, Italy - Supraglottic airway devices