This course equips anesthesia providers to rapidly distinguish epiglottitis from croup and respond with decisive, airway-focused management. You’ll review key clinical signs of impending obstruction, how and when to secure the airway (including inhalational induction, tube sizing, and difficult-airway planning), and evidence-based use of corticosteroids and nebulized epinephrine to reduce airway edema. Special emphasis is placed on maintaining spontaneous ventilation, minimizing agitation, and coordinating multidisciplinary care in these high-risk pediatric airway emergencies.