“…1,2 In spite of our fancy airway tools, algorithms, and difficult airway workshops, a recently published experience of more than 1,000 obstetric general anesthetics (GA) suggested we had not made progress in this area: the reported incidence of failed intubation was 1:250, and difficult intubation occurred in 3.3% of cases. 3 So, it is with some relief that one reads the article by McKeen et al in which they report their experience with the maternal airway over a 20-yr period at a Canadian academic tertiary care hospital. 4 In 2,633 GAs, the incidence of failed intubation was 1:1,300, similar to that of the general surgical population, and difficult intubation was encountered in 4.7%, which is at the lower end of the reported range of 1.3% to 16.3% in obstetrics.…”