Pre-Hospital Anesthesia Handbook

• Main Authors: Griffiths, Andrew (Author), Lowes, Tim (Author), Henning, Jeremy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Emergency Medicine.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

The safe and swift establishment of a secure airway is crucial in the pre-hospital situation, and many pre-hospital systems have developed standard operating procedures that involve inducing anesthesia for airway control. Developed from the manual for a two-day course on the introduction to pre-hosp...

Table of Contents:

• Indications and Decision Making
• Pre-Hospital Rapid Sequence Intubation
• Post-intubation Management
• Equipment and Minimum Monitoring Standards
• Drugs and Sedation
• Special Circumstances
• Complications and Adverse Events.