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Confined Space Airway Management in Emergency and Critical Care by Ross Hofmeyr Ross Hofmeyr discusses the ins and outs of managing an airway in a confined space. He details the challenges, the potential solutions and his top tips when faced with an airway in a less than ideal setting. Ross defines confined space airway management as airway management in an environment where access to the patient, normal positioning, and use of airway equipment is limited by physical constraints. Ultimately, these situations are endless. An icy crevasse or on a mountain top. Inside a cave. Motor vehicle crash scenes. War zones with bullets flying overhead. The inside of a helicopter or the back of an ambulance. Even inside tight Emergency Departments, cath labs or operating rooms that are full of advanced equipment. These are all scenarios in which one may find themselves faced with confined space airway management. Ross contends that all airway clinicians have the possibility to have to handle these situations. In this prese