Airway Management in Emergencies
Written by international experts in a style that is concise, practical and to the point, Airway Management in Emergencies covers all the options – medical and surgical – for managing any patient’s airway in an emergency. Practitioners and students will discover the core knowledge and accompanying management protocols necessary to assess, oxygenate, intubate, and monitor patients requiring emergency airway management.
In each chapter of the second edition, the high-yield coverage is supported by evidence-based algorithms, synoptic tips, and real-world case studies that show readers how to resolve any difficult airway scenario one would likely encounter in clinical practice.
Readers will find:
- Highlighted key points in each chapter
- Skill-sharpening review of core knowledge
- >100 figures that include a combination of original art work, fluoroscopy and Airwaycam 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 (pediatric, elderly, critically ill ) and clinical presentations
- Perspectives 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
Introduction
George Kovacs and J. Adam Law
Definitive Airway Management: When Is Tracheal Intubation Needed?
George Kovacs, Sam G. Campbell, and J. Adam Law
Airway Physiology and Anatomy
Adam Law and John M. Tallon
Oxygen Delivery Devices and Bag-Mask Ventilation
George Kovacs and J. Adam Law
Tracheal Intubation by Direct Laryngoscopy
Adam Law and George Kovacs
Alternative Intubation Techniques
Adam Law and George Kovacs
Rescue Oxygenation
Adam Law and George Kovacs
How to Do Awake Tracheal Intubations – Oral and Nasal
Adam Law and Ian R. Morris
Rapid-Sequence Intubation
George Kovacs and John Ross
Postintubation Management
George Kovacs and Robert S. Green
Approach to Tracheal Intubation
George Kovacs and J. Adam Law
Response to an Encountered Difficult Airway
Adam Law and George Kovacs
Airway Pharmacology
Kirk MacQuarrie and Peter J. Zed
Airway Management in Trauma and the Traumatized Airway
Mark Vu, Erik N. Vu, John M. Tallon, James Thompson and J. Adam Law
Central Nervous System Emergencies and Airway Management in the Suspected C-spine Injured Patient
Adam Law, Kirk MacQuarrie, and James Thompson
Cardiovascular Emergencies
George Kovacs and Alec H. Ritchie
Respiratory Emergencies
Laura Duggan and George Kovacs
The Critically Ill Patient
George Kovacs and Robert S. Green
Airway Management of the Infant
Laura Duggan, Christian M. Soder, and Narasimhan Jagannathan
Other Medical Conditions With Airway Management Implications
Paul Linden and Turki M. Al Harbi
Prehospital Airway Management: Evidence
David Petrie, John M. Tallon, and George Kovacs
Prehospital Airway Management: Clinical Considerations
George Kovacs, David Petrie, Mark Vu, and Nick Balfour
Human Factors in Airway Management
Patrick Croskerry, J. Adam Law, and George Kovacs
Index