<P> Advanced airway management is the subset of airway management that involves high skill and invasiveness . It comprises various medical procedures performed to create an open airway (a path between a patient's lungs and the outside world). </P> <P> This is accomplished by clearing or preventing obstructions of airways, often referred to as choking, cause by the tongue, the airways them self, foreign bodies or materials from the body it self, such as blood or aspiration . </P>

All of the following are considered advanced airways except