Are we there yet? The long journey of videolaryngoscopy into the mainstream.

AnaesthesiaVolume 78, Issue 8 p. 931-936 Editorial Are we there yet? The long journey of videolaryngoscopy into the mainstream J. Hansel, Corresponding Author J. Hansel Registrar, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-1313 @@VirtueOfNothing Acute Intensive Care Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: J. Hansel Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorK. El-Boghdadly, K. El-Boghdadly Consultant, Honorary Senior Lecturer orcid.org/0000-0002-9912-717X @@elboghdadly Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK King's College, London, UKSearch for more papers by this author J. Hansel, Corresponding Author J. Hansel Registrar, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-1313 @@VirtueOfNothing Acute Intensive Care Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: J. Hansel Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorK. El-Boghdadly, K. El-Boghdadly Consultant, Honorary Senior Lecturer orcid.org/0000-0002-9912-717X @@elboghdadly Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK King's College, London, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16057 1 Registrar, Acute Intensive Care Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK 2 NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 3 Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 4 Honorary Senior Lecturer, King's College, London, UK This editorial accompanies an article by Kriege et al., Anaesthesia 2023; 78: 722–9. 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