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its actually quite possible to lose an airway that is tenuous simply from topicalisation and loss of airway tone even without sedation.high risk patients usually don't die because you had an error in judgment or technical skill, they died because their disease process killed them and you just couldn't stop it.
(as an aside, it's hard to lose an airway while doing an awake intubation. That's the "awake" part of it)
and yeah know they "usually don't die" -- I'm talking a numbers game here