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.
Contents
1 The decision to intubate
2 The emergency airway algorithms
3 Rapid sequence intubation
4 Applied functional anatomy of the airway
5 Supplemental oxygenation and bag-mask ventilation
6 Endotracheal intubation
7 Identifications of the difficult and failed airway
8 Sedation and anesthesia for awake intubation
9 Blind intubation techniques
10 Extraglottic devices
11 Lighted stylet intubation
12 Flexible fiberoptic intubation
13 Fiberoptic stylets and guides
14 Video laryngoscopy
15 Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
16 Surgical airway techniques
17 Pretreatment agents
18 Sedative induction agents
19 Neuromuscular blocking agents
20 Approach to the pediatric airway
21 Pediatric airway techniques
22 The difficult pediatrics airway
23 Airway management in the prehospital setting
24 Alternative devices for EMS airway management
25 Controversies in EMS airway management
26 RSI using nondepolarizing agents
27 Trauma
28 Elevated intracranial pressure
29 Reactive airways disease
30 Distorted airways and acute upper airway obstruction
31 The critically ill patient
32 The pregnant patient
33 Prolonged seizure activity
34 The geriatric patient
35 The morbidly obese patient
36 Foreign body in the adult airway
37 Mechanical ventilation
38 Noninvasive mechanical ventilation
39 Pulse oximetry and capnography/capnometry
Index
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.
Contents 1 The decision to intubate
2 The emergency airway algorithms
3 Rapid sequence intubation
4 Applied functional anatomy of the airway
5 Supplemental oxygenation and bag-mask ventilation
6 Endotracheal intubation
7 Identifications of the difficult and failed airway
8 Sedation and anesthesia for awake intubation
9 Blind intubation techniques
10 Extraglottic devices
11 Lighted stylet intubation
12 Flexible fiberoptic intubation
13 Fiberoptic stylets and guides
14 Video laryngoscopy
15 Optically enhanced laryngoscopy
16 Surgical airway techniques
17 Pretreatment agents
18 Sedative induction agents
19 Neuromuscular blocking agents
20 Approach to the pediatric airway
21 Pediatric airway techniques
22 The difficult pediatrics airway
23 Airway management in the prehospital setting
24 Alternative devices for EMS airway management
25 Controversies in EMS airway management
26 RSI using nondepolarizing agents
27 Trauma
28 Elevated intracranial pressure
29 Reactive airways disease
30 Distorted airways and acute upper airway obstruction
31 The critically ill patient
32 The pregnant patient
33 Prolonged seizure activity
34 The geriatric patient
35 The morbidly obese patient
36 Foreign body in the adult airway
37 Mechanical ventilation
38 Noninvasive mechanical ventilation
39 Pulse oximetry and capnography/capnometry
Index
Product Details
- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third edition (May 16, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781784948
- ISBN-13: 978-0781784948
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches