“…As El-Boghdadly et al and Murphy and Howes [3] observe, training in AFOI is advisable for all anaesthesia trainees, and their study's detailing of the grades of trainee performing AFOI, together with their complication rates, is a useful addition to the literature. Our own 2015 retrospective study of 1554 AFOIs, also at a tertiary care teaching centre, included AFOIs performed by attending consulting staff or their trainees under supervision [4], as did Joseph et al's retrospective analysis of AFOI, in which specific mention was made of resident involvement in 1038 of the 1085 cases reported [5].…”