Abstract: An intubation device comprises an airway tube (10) a distal end of which is surrounded by an inflatable cuff (12) which is shaped and dimensioned to lie, in use, between the soft palate and the laryngeal inlet posteriorly of the palatopharyngeal folds. When inflated the cuff (12) has roughly the shape of the frustum of a four-sided pyramid with rounded corners and tapers away from its distal end. The distal end of the tube (10) is recessed ID into the distal end of the cuff so that the latter is an annular protrusion (13) adapted to straddle the upper region of but not to surround the elliptical epiglottis (14) and to fill the piriform fossae (15) on either side thereof.