title: The paediatric upper airway: anaesthetic aspects and conclusions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Paediatric airway problems are among the most challenging clinicians will face throughout their career. Clinicians unaccustomed to dealing with children tend to approach paediatric airway problems with a disproportionate amount of fear that is often engendered by inexperience, and this fear can interfere with performance. Understanding the differences between the infant upper airway and the airway in older children is important to properly manage the airway.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Airway manoeuvres and the important tools used for airway management, such as the laryngeal mask airway, the fibreoptic bronchoscope and the new intubating fibreoptic stylets for managing the difficult paediatric airway, have been elucidated in the literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Planning, preparation, and teamwork are essential, and must include an awareness of problems that might occur in the recovery period. Special clinical situations such as management of the child with impending airway obstruction are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital of Zollikerberg, Zollikerberg, Switzerland. Adrian.reber@spitalzollikerberg.ch
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reber