Learn the clinical skills necessary to treat any emergency airway problem
Written 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.
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Table Of Content | Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. Definitive Airway Management: Whit Is It Time? 3. Airway Physiology and Anatomy 4. Oxygen Delivery Devices and Bag-Mask Ventilation 5. Tracheal Intubation by Direct Laryngoscopy 6. Alternative Intubation Techniques 7. Rescue Oxygenation 8. How to do Awake Tracheal Intubations--Oral and Nasal 9. Rapid Sequence Intubation--Why and How to do it 10. Postintubation Management 11. Approach to Tracheal Intubation 12. Response to an Encountered Difficult Airway 13. Airway Pharmacology 14. Central Nervous System Emergencies 15. Cardiovascular Emergencies 16. Respiratory Emergencies 17. The Critically Ill Patient 18. The Very Young and the Very Old Patient 19. Prehospital Airway Management Considerations 20. Human Factors in Airway Management Index |
Publish Date | 9 Oct 2007 |