Can you predict difficulty? We get into this murky topic later, but for now, we want to give you some quick assessment tools in easy mnemonic form so that you can start to apply them at the bedside for your next airway. Remembering these is helpful but we suggest that as you review them you start to notice the patterns and themes that run through each for what makes an airway “difficult” since at the end of the day this is really what really matters, being able to identify the difficult BEFORE it happens to you unexpectedly.