Full Description
Publisher's Noteguaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Learn the clinical skills necessary to treat any emergency airway problemWritten by international experts in a style that's concise, practical and to the point, Airway Management in Emergencies covers all the options -- both medical and surgical -- for managing any patient's airway in an emergency. Here, you'll find the core knowledge and accompanying management protocols necessary to assess, oxygenate, intubate, and monitor patients requiring emergency airway management.In each chapter, this high-yield coverage is supported by evidence-based algorithms, synoptic tips, and real-world case studies that show you how to resolve any difficult airway scenario you would likely encounter in clinical practice.Features:Highlighted key points in each chapter Skill-sharpening review of "core knowledge" More than 100 figures that include a combination of original art work, fluoroscopy and Airwaycam (R) images.A practical overview of both established and newer emergency airway equipment Far-reaching coverage addressing both the anticipated and unanticipated difficult airway, the uncooperative patient, and the "failed" airway.Chapters on treating a range of patient populations and clinical presentations, including an approach to the pediatric, the elderly, and the critically ill patientPerspectives on when and how to perform both "awake" and rapid sequence intubations and effectively administer post-intubation care A closing chapter on the interrelationship between human performance and patient safety -- and how to optimize both in caring for patients requiring acute airway management
Contents
ForewordPreface1. Introduction2. Definitive Airway Management: Whit Is It Time?3. Airway Physiology and Anatomy4. Oxygen Delivery Devices and Bag-Mask Ventilation5. Tracheal Intubation by Direct Laryngoscopy6. Alternative Intubation Techniques7. Rescue Oxygenation8. How to do Awake Tracheal Intubations--Oral and Nasal9. Rapid Sequence Intubation--Why and How to do it10. Postintubation Management11. Approach to Tracheal Intubation12. Response to an Encountered Difficult Airway13. Airway Pharmacology14. Central Nervous System Emergencies15. Cardiovascular Emergencies16. Respiratory Emergencies17. The Critically Ill Patient18. The Very Young and the Very Old Patient19. Prehospital Airway Management Considerations20. Human Factors in Airway ManagementIndexNER(01): WOW
