https://phemcast.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/surg.mp3 The West Midlands surgical skills course offers cadaveric training for PHEM and EM practitioners on rare life saving procedures. Click here to go straight to their page.AnatomyThe GuidelinesDifficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults. C. Frerk et al. Difficult Airway Society: Intubation guidelines working group. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 115 (6): 827–848 (2015) doi:10.1093/bja/aev371For more information, have a look at the Difficult Airway Society website.AAGBI Safer Prehospital AnaesthesiaClick here for the 2017 guidelinesThe KitKnow what your service carries, practice with that equipment, then you will be familiar with the kit you are using in the heat of the moment.Minimal kit: scalpel, bougie, tubeTracheal dilators and tracheal hookThe TechniqueFor a demonstration of the DAS recommended technique for surgical front of neck access, have a look at this video, recorded by colleagues over at openairway.org:Just a Routine operationThe video we mention in the podcast produced by Martin Bromiley after the death of his wife, Elaine, in a can’t intubate can’t oxygenate scenario is available here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzlvgtPIof4And have a look at the website for more of Martin’s work with the Clinical Human Factors group.Other fantastic #FOAM resources regarding airway management are available:From Nicholas Chrimes  at http://vortexapproach.orgFrom the fabulous people over at Life in the Fast Lane including a video demo from Scott Weingart from EMCrit: https://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/surgical-cricothyroidotomy/ReferencesThis is Tim’s recent publication we mention in the ‘cast!: Nutbeam, T., Clarke, R., Luff, T., Enki, D. and Gay, D. 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