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Airway decisions can be difficult, deciding whether to intervene as well as when and how. This talk serves to reintroduce the basics of airway management and then move to some basic understanding of pulmonary physiology and how this guides the tools and techniques that should be available to the prehospital provider. This presentation by Michael Levy, Medical Director of the Anchorage Fire Department, will discuss airway decisions and interventions as both a journey and a destination guided by the goals of the intervention and the incremental responses to them.