ON THE COVER:
Airway management is applied daily by most anesthesiologists. This issue contains three articles, all with editorial commentary, with new knowledge on airway management. These include a description of problems with simulators for endotracheal intubation, a randomized comparison between awake fiberoptic and awake video laryngoscopy in the setting of anticipated difficult airway, and injuries associated with laryngeal mask airways and risks for their failure:
Klock: Airway Simulators and Mannequins: A Case of High Infidelity? p. 1179
Fiadjoe and Litman: Difficult Tracheal Intubation: Looking to the Past to Determine the Future, p. 1181
Asai: Complications with Supraglottic Airways: Something to Worry About or Much Ado About Nothing? p. 1183
Schebesta et al. : Degrees of Reality: Airway Anatomy of High-fidelity Human Patient Simulators and Airway Trainers, p. 1204
Rosenstock et al. : Awake Fiberoptic or Awake Video Laryngoscopic Tracheal Intubation in Patients with Anticipated Difficult Airway Management: A Randomized Clinical Trial, p. 1210
Ramachandran et al. : Predictors and Clinical Outcomes from Failed Laryngeal Mask Airway Unique™: A Study of 15,795 Patients, p. 1217
