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OCTOBER 15, 2024

The Airway: The One Anesthesia Topic That Never Gets Old

By David Sherer, MD
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The old saying in real estate, as most people who have shopped for a home know, is “location, location, location.” In our business of anesthesia practice, one might say the mantra is “airway, airway, airway.” For it is the airway (the “A” of the ABC bedrock of anesthesia practice: Airway, Breathing and Circulation) that defines our specialty and sets us apart from other medical professionals (with a nod to the emergency doctors). Books have