Synopses & Reviews
Prepared by the faculty of the National Emergency Airway Management Course, this manual is an expert, practical guide to this challenging procedure. It offers step-by-step instructions on techniques, drug administration, and prevention and management of complications and includes a complete section on difficult clinical scenarios. The book is packed with easy-to-follow algorithms and diagrams and helpful mnemonics.
All chapters have been updated for this Second Edition and templated to ensure consistent organization. The authors have removed obsolete drugs and added evidence-based analyses of procedures. A new section on implementation includes stocking the airway cart, establishing protocols, training, and skill retention.
This edition is also available electronically for handheld computers. See PDA listing for details.
Table of Contents
Section 2: Special Techniques for the Difficult and Failed Airway
- Chapter 6: Approach to the Difficult and Failed Airway
- Chapter 7: Sedation and Anesthesia for Awake Intubation
- Chapter 8: Blind Intubation Techniques
- Chapter 9: LMA
- Chapter 10: CT, LTA, PTL
- Chapter 11: Lightwand Intubation
- Chapter 12: Flexible Fiberoptic Intubation
- Chapter 13: Rigid/semi-rigid Fiberoptic Techniques
- Chapter 14: Video laryngoscopy
- Chapter 15: Surgical Airway Management Technique
Section 3: Pharmacology of Airway Management
- Chapter 16: Pretreatment Agents
- Chapter 17: Sedative and Induction Agent
- Chapter 18: Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
Section 4: Pediatric Airway Management:
- Chapter 19: Approach to the Pediatric Airway
- Chapter 20: Pediatric Airway Techniques and Diffficult
- Chapter 21: The Difficult Airway in Pediatrics
- Chapter 22: FB Pediatric Air Way
Section 5: Special Clinical Circumstances
- Chapter 23: RSI when Succinylcholine is Contraindicated
- Chapter 24: The Patient with Trauma
- Chapter 25: The Patient with elevated ICP
- Chapter 26: The Patient with Reactive Airways Disease
- Chapter 27: The Patient with a Distorted Airway or Upper Airway Obstruction
- Chapter 28: The Critically Ill Patient
- Chapter 29: The Pregnant Patient
- Chapter 30: The Patient with Status Epilepticus
- Chapter 31: The Geriatric Patient
- Chapter 32: The Morbidly Obese Patient
- Chapter 33: The Adult Patient with a Foreign Body in the Airway
- Chapter 34: Prehospital Airway Management
Section 6: Mechanical Ventilation and Monitoring
- Chapter 35: Mechanical Ventilation and Pulmonary Function
- Chapter 36: Non-invasive Ventilation
- Chapter 37: Pulse Oximetry
- Chapter 38: Capnometry and Capnography
Section 7: Practical issues
- Chapter 39: The Difficult Airway Cart
- Chapter 40: Bringing it Home: Implementation and Team Training
- Chapter 41: Quality Management in Airway Management