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...