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Title The difficult airway : an atlas of tools and techniques for clinical management / David B. Glick, Richard M Cooper, Andranik Ovassapian, editors
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents The Difficult Airway: Definitions and Algorithms -- The Expected Difficult Airway -- The Role of Awake Intubation -- Unanticipated Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy: Methods to Improve Its Success -- The Role of Rigid Fiberoptic Laryngoscopes -- Role of Rigid Video Laryngoscopy -- The Role of the Supraglottic Airway -- The Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy -- The Role of Optical Stylets -- The Role of the Lightwand -- Role of Retrograde Intubation -- The Role of the Combitube and Laryngeal Tube -- The Role of Transtracheal Jet Ventilation -- The Role of Surgical Airway Access -- Evaluation and Management of the Difficult Pre-Hospital Airway -- Extubation of the Difficult Airway
Summary The Difficult Airway provides comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways. The book begins with a review of current definitions of the difficult airway, its incidence, and the evolution of algorithms to facilitate its management. The chapters that follow offer a comprehensive update on the techniques and concepts described in the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Difficult Airway Algorithm. Noted experts in each of the techniques have been recruited by the book editors to present the information. Figures throughout the book illustrate important points and procedures. This is a wonderful resource for health care professionals who are concerned with the management of the difficult airway, including anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians, emergency room physicians, nurses, and out-of-hospital first responders
Analysis Medicine
Anesthesiology
Emergency medicine
Critical care medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Intensive / Critical Care Medicine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Respiratory emergencies.
Respiratory intensive care.
Airway Management -- methods
Airway Obstruction -- therapy
Airway Management
Clinical Medicine -- methods
Respiratory Therapy -- methods
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Respiratory.
MEDICAL -- Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine.
Médecine.
Respiratory emergencies
Respiratory intensive care
Form Electronic book
Author Glick, David B
Cooper, Richard M.
Ovassapian, Andranik, 1936-2010.
ISBN 9780387928494
0387928499
0387928480
9780387928487
9781299542556
1299542557