{
  "abstract": "I was working as the casualty medical officer in the triage area of the emergency department (ED), where I was doing my emergency medicine residency. The evening had been busy but manageable until a call came from the emergency operating theatre (OT). They had a patient they were unable to intubate or oxygenate. The senior consultant was already occupied with another critical case. There was no difficult airway response team waiting in the background. The responsibility, at that moment, fell to whoever was available. So, on my run from the ED to the OT, I found myself reciting the steps of cricothyroidotomy, which will be the maximum an emergency physician can do to secure an airway. ‘Finger-Scalpel-Finger-Bougie-Tube’.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Trauma and Emergency, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India"
      ],
      "name": "V A Ashwin Kumar"
    }
  ],
  "title": "My first surgical airway",
  "uid": "995c2b71-6062-599e-9eaf-7a06cda4be24"
}