Description
Book SynopsisThe book provides up-to-date and easy to understand information on airway management with special emphasis on practical management along with required theory background and key points. It covers all aspects of airway management including education, training, audit, controversies, recent advances, case discussion, etc. The book covers all the techniques of airway management like the use of video laryngoscopy, fibre-optic intubation, and retrograde intubation. Further, the book includes a chapter on airway management during transmittable infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. The book also includes separate chapters on the available guidelines; discussion of interesting cases; neonatal airway; and out of hospital airway management. The book is written by experienced authors keeping in mind the unique problems and situations related to this specialized and vital area of patient management. It presents summary and key points in each chapter. Overall, this book provides practical, specialty oriented and patient centered approach to airway management.
The book is a useful resource for postgraduate students, residents and fellows in anesthesia, emergency medicine, critical care medicine. It is also relevant for anesthesiologists, intensivists, emergency physicians and internal medicine physicians.
Table of ContentsPart 1 General
1 History and Milestones of Airway Management
2 Anatomy and physiology of the airway applied
3 Preoperative Airway Assessment
4 Imaging of the Airway
Part 2 Equipment
5 Masks and Airways
6 Supraglottic airway devices
7 Endotracheal Tubes
8 Direct Laryngoscopes
9 Video Laryngoscopes
10 Flexible Video Endoscopes
11 Airway Adjuncts
12 Lung Isolation Devices
13 Difficult Airway Cart
Part 3 Practice
14 Principles of Airway Management
15 Overview of Airway Techniques and Decision Making
16 Oxygenation During Airway Management
Part 4 Techniques
17 Airway Management Guidelines: An overview
18 Mask Ventilation
19 Supraglottic Airway Devices: Clinical Applications
20 Endotracheal Intubation – Direct and Video Laryngoscope Guided Techniques
21 Flexible Video Endoscopic Guided Airway Management
22 Unconventional Intubation Techniques
23 Airway Management in Thoracic Surgery
24 Airway Anaesthesia
25 Front of Neck Access Procedures
26 Extubation
Part 5 Specialty
27 Airway Management in Paediatric Anesthesia
28 Airway Management in Obstetrics
29 Airway Management in Trauma
30 Airway Management in Obesity
31 Airway Management in Maxillofacial Surgery
32 Airway Management in Neuroanesthesia
33 Airway Management in Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
34 Airway Management in Airway emergency
35 Airway Management in Intensive Care Unit
36 Airway Management in Prehospital Care
37 Airway Management in emergency Department
38 Airway Management in ENT procedures
39 Airway Management in Neonates
40 Airway Management in Infectious diseases
Part 6 Others
41 Complications of Airway Management
42 Controversies in Airway Management
43 Airway Management in Low Resource Settings
44 Recent Advances in Airway Management
45 Simulation Based Airway Training
