0000-0002-9394-4777 About
Andy is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthesia. He is past Clinical Director of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care in Warrington and DAS Professor of Anaesthesia & Airway Management. He trained in Liverpool, North-West England and Melbourne, Australia.
Andy has a long-standing interest in airway management, especially extubation & in the ICU, on which he publishes regularly. He is Associate Editor of Trends in Anaesthesia & Critical Care.
He was an author of the Difficult Airway Society Extubation Guideline in 2012. This was the first national extubation guideline to be published in the world.
He has served two terms as Hon. Treasurer of the Difficult Airway Society (2014-2021) and chaired the joint Difficult Airway Society - Intensive Care Society - Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine - Royal College of Anaesthetists working party which produced guidelines for tracheal intubation in critically ill adults. These were published in 2018 and represent the UK airway and critical care communities’ response to the findings, in NAP4, of sub-optimal airway management in ICUs and EDs.
Organising committee, World Airway Management Meeting (WAMM) in Amsterdam 2019.
He co-authored the DAS ICS AAGBI FICM RCoA guidelines (adult & paediatric) for airway management in COVID19 & the National Patient Safety Improvement Programme COVID19 Tracheostomy guideline in 2020.
He is a faculty member & contributing author of the Beyond Basics ICU airway course (University of Hong Kong).
He represents DAS on the APA-DAS paediatric airway management guideline update group.
He presents & runs airway workshops in the UK & abroad. Andy has written chapters in UK/EU & US airway management textbooks & produced the critical care chapter for the UCL Airway Management MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).
He is an executive of PUMA (the Project for the Universal Management of the Airway) aiming to produce an international, multi-disciplinary, consolidated guideline for airway management.
He is a founding executive of the international multi-disciplinary SAS (Safe Airway Society) based in Australia. He is an Honorary Member of EAMS (European Airway Management Society). He is a member of the working party updating the DAS 2015 guideline and co-authored the PUMA / international airway societies Preventing Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation guideline, 2022.
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Publications (55)
- Cricoid force – therapeutic, prophylactic or routine: a reply Save
- The criteria for excluding oesophageal intubation are different from those for confirming tracheal intubation Save
- Laryngoscopy may identify but cannot exclude oesophageal intubation Save
- Time to replace ‘No trace, wrong place’ with ‘Sustained exhaled carbon dioxide’. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2025; 134: 248–9 Save
- Distinguishing prophylactic and therapeutic cricoid force Save
- PUMA guidelines: a fail-safe when sustained exhaled carbon dioxide is absent following attempted tracheal intubation Save
- Addressing human factors is crucial to preventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation Save
- Carbon dioxide detection always trumps clinical examination when excluding oesophageal intubation Save
- Clinical examination may increase but not decrease suspicion of oesophageal intubation Save
- Clinical tests for confirming tracheal intubation or excluding oesophageal intubation: a diagnostic test accuracy systematic review and meta-analysis Save