Rather than focusing predominantly on failure prevention, the new 2025 Difficult Airway Society guidelines for unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation represent a conceptual evolution in airway management, prioritising continuous oxygenation, timely escalation, human factors, and a broader understanding of airway difficulty that incorporates physiological and contextual complexity.  

Recent Safety-II focused analysis of airway incidents reported to webAIRS has shown that many events that had the potential for catastrophic outcomes did not progress to patient harm because clinicians adapted effectively to evolving or suboptimal clinical conditions .

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Be part of the webAIRS Morbidity and Mortality Series.  DATE: Monday 29 June  TIME: 7.30 to 9.00pm AEST  LOCATION: Online via Zoom

Come and find us at the ASA and NZSA CSC meeting in Hunter Valley and hear from our expert webAIRS analysers: Unintended phrenic nerve palsy by regional anaesthesia expert Dr J Tan,  Local anaesthetic systemic toxicity by webAIRS analyser Dr K Brown-Beresford, Incidents of emergency front-of-neck access by airway management expert Dr C Oughton.