The safe anaesthetic management requires diligent efforts in maintaining an intact functional airway. Endotracheal intubation has been one of the best ways of achieving this goal. Intubation of the trachea for the purpose of resuscitation is three centuries older than anaesthesia itself.
Andreas Vesalius in 1543 reported the first tracheal intubation in an animal CITATION Tra05 \l 1033 In his landmark book published in 1543, De humani corporis fabrica, he described an experiment in which he passed a reed into the trachea of a dying animal whose thorax had been opened and maintained ventilation by blowing into the reed intermittently CITATION Bak71 \l 1033 \m Gar03 Vesalius wrote that the technique could be life saving. Human endotracheal intubation was first done by Curry in 1792 CITATION Pau06 \l 1033 (4) . At that time, no laryngoscope was invented and intubation was done by…
