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After the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic began to spread globally at the beginning of 2020, concerns arose that frontline healthcare workers might be at increased risk of infection. During earlier SARS outbreaks, the performance of aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) had been suspected of being associated with markedly elevated risks of transmission from patients to healthcare workers. 1 In an effort to define these AGPs, a recent rapid review that reached high agreement amongst experts, compiled and classified high-risk procedures. 2 Many of these procedures are typically and frequently performed by anaesthesiologists, such as intubation, extubation, bronchoscopy and airway suction. For the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, however, a causal link between high-risk interventions and SARS-CoV-2 transmission has not been established conclusively. 3, 4 In …