**8. Conclusion**

Establishing a secure airway in a trauma patient is one of the primary essentials of treatment. Maxillofacial trauma directly impacts on the airway resulting in compromise and hindering attempts to secure the airway and any delays in securing the airway may lead to morbidity and mortality. So, multiple approaches to securing the airway are possible; each has advantages and disadvantages. Every airway manager has a different set of skills, experience and availability of airway equipment, so management details will vary based on these factors. It is useful to understand common facial injury patterns that affect airway management and then consider how each injury pattern will interfere with common emergency airway manoeuvres. The time available to accomplish the task is short and the patient's condition may deteriorate rapidly. Both decision-making and performance are impaired in such circumstances. In this chapter, we discussed the complexity of the situation and presented a treatment approach.

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Yasser Mahmoud Hammad Ali Hammad1,2\* and Nabil A. Shallik1,2,3,4

1 Department of Anaesthesia, ICU and Perioperative Medicine, HMC, Doha, Qatar

2 Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar

3 Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

4 Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Tanta, Egypt

\*Address all correspondence to: YHammad@hamad.qa

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