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Book SynopsisDifficulties when securing complex pediatric airways can be life-threatening. This practical guide provides clinicians with essential information required to ensure safe management of challenging airways in children. With practical and actionable information, the book details preventative measures for potential complications in airway management.
Table of ContentsPart I. Basic Principles, Assessment and Planning of Airway Management: 1. Developmental anatomy of the airway Rebecca S. Isserman and Ronald S. Litman; 2. The difficult pediatric airway: predictors, incidence, and complications Nicholas Burjek; 3. Universal algorithms and approaches to airway management Thomas Engelhardt and Andreas Machotta; Part II. Devices and Techniques to Manage the Abnormal Airway: 4. Direct laryngoscopy equipment and techniques Maria Matuszczak and Cheryl K. Gooden; 5. Supraglottic airways equipment and techniques Andrea S. Huang, Lisa E. Sohn, Suman Rao and Narasimhan Jagannathan; 6. Oxygenation techniques for children with difficult airways Paul A. Baker; 7. Video laryngoscopy equipment and techniques Agnes I. Hunyady, James Peyton, Sarah Lee and Raymond Park; 8. Flexible bronchoscopy techniques: nasal and oral approaches with evidence base Paul Stricker and Pete Kovatsis; 9. Optical stylet and light guided equipment and techniques Rajeev Subramanyam and Mohamed Mahmoud; 10. Rigid bronchoscopy equipment and techniques Jessica M. Van Beek-King and Jeffrey C. Rastatter; 11. Hybrid approaches to the difficult pediatric airway Patrick N. Olomu, Grace Hsu and Justin L. Lockman; 12. Muscle relaxants Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz; 13. Management of can't intubate and can't oxygenate scenario in children and infants Vivian Man-ying Yuen, Stefano Sabato and Birgitta Wong; 14. Ultrasonography for airway management Michael S. Kristensen, Wendy H. Teoh and Thomas Engelhardt; 15. Difficult airway cart for management of the difficult pediatric airway Alyson Walker and Britta S. von Ungern Sternberg; Part III. Special Topics: 16. Extubation in children with difficult airway Luis Sequera-Ramos, Alec Zhu, Benjamin Kiesel and Narasimhan Jagannathan; 17. Airway management in the child with an airway injury Somaletha T. Bhattacharya; 18. Airway management outside of the operating room: the emergency department Aaron Donoghue; 19. Airway management of the neonate and infant: the difficult and critical airway in the ICU setting Janet Lioy; 20. Airway management in EXIT procedures Debnath Chatterjee and Timothy M Crombleholme; 21. One lung ventilation in pediatric patients T. Wesley Templeton; Appendix 1: airway management videos Michelle Tsao, Anthony Tantoco and Narasimhan Jagannathan; Index.
