Principles of Airway Management

• Main Authors: Finucane, Brendan T. (Author), Santora, Albert H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2003.
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Pain medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Pain Medicine.

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind —John Donne 1 In 1988 Belhouse and Dore estimated that as many as 600 people died every year from complications of airway management in the developed world. The tragedy of this statistic was that most of these deaths were preventable. I...

Table of Contents:

• Anatomy of the Airway
• Basic Airway Management and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Basic Airway Management Equipment
• Fiberoptic Airway Management Techniques
• Evaluation of the Airway
• Indications and Preparation of the Patient for Intubation
• Techniques of Intubation
• The Difficult Airway
• Complications of Endotracheal Intubation
• Surgical Approaches to Airway Management
• The Pediatric Airway
• Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Support
• The Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA).