Full Description
Principles of Airway Management, 4th Edition, reviews the essential aspects of airway management: anatomy, equipment, intubation, fiberoptic endoscopy, surgical approaches, intubating LMA (lightwand), pediatric airway, CPR, and mechanical ventilation. The book features well-balanced discussions of the complexities and difficult issues associated with airway management; excellent organization that ensures the material can be learned and applied to various situations; the latest equipment and techniques; summary boxes which highlight the most important points of each chapter; and more than 400 illustrations (many in color, for the first time), tables, and boxes.
Contents
1. Anatomy of the Airway.- 2.Evaluation of the Airway.- 3.Basic Emergency Airway Management and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).- 4.Basic Equipment for Airway Management.- 5.The Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) and other Extraglottic (Supraglottic) Airway Devices.- 6.Advanced Airway Devices.- 7.Indications and Preparation of the Patient for Intubation.- 8.Techniques of Intubation.- 9.The Difficult Airway.- 10.Pediatric Airway Management.- 11.Fiberoptically Guided Airway Management Techniques.- 12.Surgical Options in Airway Management.- 13.Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Care.- 14.Extubation Strategies: The Extubation Algorithm.- 15.Complications of Airway Management.
