Anaesthesia is a technical and complex specialty. As time progresses, every practitioner discovers effective, common sense ways to deal with challenging situations. Many of these tips (how to do it) and caveats (how not to do it!) are simply passed on by word of mouth to colleagues, juniors and others. Most of them are not big enough to warrant publication in journals and so remain part of oral medical history, some surviving only within a single unit or institution. This small book aims to enable these tips to be shared among a much wider audience.