Core Topics in Airway Management

Management of the airway is an important and challenging aspect of many clinicians' work and is a source of complications and litigation. The new edition of this popular book remains a clear, practical and highly-illustrated guide to all necessary aspects of airway management. The book has been updated throughout, to cover all changes to best practice and clinical management and provides extensive coverage of the key skills and knowledge required to manage airways in a wide variety of patients and clinical settings. The best of the previous editions has been preserved, whilst new chapters on videolaryngoscopy, awake tracheal intubation, lung separation, airway ultrasonography, airway management in an epidemic and many more have been added. This is an essential text for anyone who manages the airway including trainees and specialists in anaesthesia, emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, prehospital medicine as well as nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Section 1. Airway Management: Background and Techniques: 1. Anatomy John Picard; 2. Physiology of Apnoea, Hypoxia and Airway Reflexes Andrew D. Farmery and Jeremy A. Langton; 3. The Epidemiology of Airway Management Complications Johannes M. Huitink and Tim Cook; 4. Structured Planning of Airway Management J. Adam Law and Thomas Heidegger; 5. Pre-anaesthetic Airway Assessment Carin A. Hagberg, Gang Zheng and Pierre Diemunsch; 6. Pre-anaesthetic Airway Endoscopy, Real and Virtual William Rosenblatt and Imran Ahmad; 7. Ultrasonography for Airway Management Wendy H. Teoh and Michael S. Kristensen; 8. Oxygenation: Before, During and After Airway Management Søren Steemann Rudolph and Anil Patel; 9. Awake Tracheal Intubation Charlotte Vallentin Rosenstock and Iljaz Hodzovic; 10. Drugs for Airway Management Lars S. Rasmussen; 11. How to Avoid Morbidity from Aspiration of Gastric Content to the Lungs Richard Vanner and Tak Asai; 12. Face Mask Ventilation Adrian Matioc; 13. Supraglottic Airways Tim Cook; 14. Tracheal Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy Keith Greenland and Richard Levitan; 15. Tracheal Tube Introducers (Bougies), Stylets and Airway Exchange Catheters Massimiliano Sorbello and Iljaz Hodzovic; 16. Tracheal Intubation Using the Flexible Optical Bronchoscope P. Allan Klock, Jr, Mridula Rai and Mansukh Popat; 17. Videolaryngoscopy Lorenz Theiler, Tim Cook and Michael Aziz; 18. Expiratory Ventilation Assistance and Ventilation through Narrow Tubes Michiel W.P. de Wolf and Michael S. Kristensen; 19. Multimodal Techniques for Airway Management Pierre Diemunsch, Pierre-Olivier Ludes and Carin A. Hagberg; 20. Front of Neck Airway (FONA) Paul A. Baker, Laura V. Duggan and Dietmar Enk; 21. Extubation Viki Mitchell and Richard Cooper; Section 2. Airway Management: Clinical Settings and Subspecialties: 22. The Airway in Obstetrics Wendy H. Teoh and Mary C. Mushambi; 23. The Paediatric Airway Morten Bøttger and Narasimhan Jagannathan; 24. Airway Management in Obesity Daniela Godoroja, Marie Louise Rovsing and Jay B. Brodsky; 25. Maxillofacial and Dental Surgery Hanne Abildstrøm and Brian Jenkins; 26. Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery: Airway Management Basem Abdelmalak and Anil Patel; 27. Lung Separation Jay B. Brodsky; 28. Airway Management in the Critically Ill Andy Higgs and Audrey De Jong; 29. The Patient with a Tracheostomy Brendan McGrath and Sheila Nainan Myatra; 30. Pre-hospital and Trauma Airway Management Leif Rognås and David Lockey; 31. Airway Management during CPR Jerry P. Nolan and Jasmeet Soar; 32. The Bloody and Bleeding Airway Michael S. Kristensen and Barry McGuire; 33. The Airway in Anaesthesia for Transoral Robotic Surgery Rasmus Winkel and Michael S. Kristensen; Section 3. Airway Management: Organisation: 34. Departmental and Hospital Organisation Lauren Berkow and Alistair McNarry; 35. Training in Airway Management Mark R. W. Stacey; 36. Human Factors in Airway Management Mikael Rewers and Nicholas Chrimes; 37. Decontamination of Airway Equipment Subrahmanyan Radhakrishna; 38. Airway Management in a Respiratory Epidemic or Pandemic Tim Cook and Massimiliano Sorbello; Index.