Manual of Emergency Airway Management

Editor:: Ron M. Walls; Michael F. Murphy
Format:: Softcover

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Short description

A guide to emergency airway management in any adult or pediatric patient. It offers instructions on techniques, drug administration, and prevention and management of complications and includes a section on difficult clinical scenarios.

Long description

Prepared by the faculty of the National Emergency Airway Management Course, this manual is an expert, practical guide to emergency airway management in any adult or pediatric patient. 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. Each of the Third Edition's chapters includes improved full-color illustrations and updated evidence-based analyses of procedures. A new section geared to the prehospital setting presents current National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians guidelines, including alternative airway devices.

Product details

Publisher:: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN:: 9780781784948
Publication date:: May 2008
Length:: 249mm
Width:: 175mm
Thickness:: 18mm
Weight:: 771g
Edition:: 3rd Edition, Revised
Pages:: 461
Illustrations:: Illustrated

Section1: Approach to the Airway The Decision to Intubate The Emergency Airway Algorithms Rapid Sequence Intubation Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway Supplemental Oxygenation and Bag Mask Ventilation Endotracheal Intubation section 2:The Difficult And Failed Airway Identification of the Difficult and Failed Airway Sedation and Anesthesia for Awake Intubation Blind Intubation Techniques Extraglottic Devices Lighted Stylet Intubation Flexible Fiberoptic Intubation Fiberoptic Stylets and Guides Video Laryngoscopy Optically Enhanced Laryngoscopy Surgical Airway Management Sectioin 3:Pharmacology of Airway Management Pretreatment Agents Sedative and Induction Agents Neuromuscular Blocking Agents Section 4:Pediatric Airway Management Approach to the Pediatric Airway Pediatric Airway Techniques The Difficult Airway in Pediatrics Section 5: EMS Airway Management Airway Management in the Prehospital Setting Alternative Devices for EMS Airway Management Controversies in EMS Airway Management Section 6: Special Clinical Circumstances RSI Using Nondepolarizing Agents Trauma Elevated Intracranial Pressure Reactive Airways Disease Distorted Airway or Upper Airway Obstruction The Critically Ill Patient The Pregnant Patient Prolonged Seizure Activity The Geriatric Patient The Morbidly Obese Patient Foreign Body in the Adult Airway Section 7: Mechanical Ventilation and Monitoring Mechanical Ventilation Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation Pulse Oximetry and Capnography/Capnometry Index