Preferred techniques of securing an airway like orotracheal, nasotracheal may not always be applicable, thus a trauma surgeon-anaesthesist team should always have alternative techniques in their armamentarium to reduce the morbidity associated with these patients. One technique may not be applicable for every patient, thus knowledge about different techniques available is equally required. Any situation when a patient cannot be oxygenated or ventilated should prompt the insertion of a surgical airway. Any effort to keep the airway open is important and lifesaving in such situations. A choice...