The field of interventional pulmonology is expanding rapidly with increasingly complex endoscopic procedures. Pulmonologists and anesthesiologists are both airway specialists. When they cooperate in performing flexible bronchoscopies, they must share a common anatomical space. A close and dynamic collaboration helps to optimize patient management by enhancing safety, facilitating the procedures and improving patient satisfaction. Several challenges are to be taken up, notably managing frail and often polymorbid patients, working outside the usual operating-room area, and the need to be quickly available, given the frequently semi-urgent setting of these procedures. In this context, the optimization of collaborative procedures is essential.

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