Airway Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Khan, Zahid Hussain (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Human Physiology.

This book integrates chapters on a variety of topics ranging from airway physiology to scenarios of a difficult airway, and reviews and management options in patients who are known to have a difficult airway such as the difficult pediatric airway, the difficult airway in obstetrics, and those suffer...

Table of Contents:

• Physiology of the airway
• Airway Assessment-A Critical Appraisal
• Video laryngoscopy & indirect intubating aids in airway management
• Perioperative care of ambulatory anaesthesia
• The pediatric airway: Normal and abnormal
• Intubation of the pediatric patient
• The difficult pediatric airway: Management options
• Perioperative Management of obstructive sleep apnea
• Airway management in traumatic brain injury
• Airway management in cervical spine injured patients
• Indigenous devises in difficult airway management
• Cricothyrotomy
• Surgical airway
• Surgical  approaches to airway management.- Difficult Airway in Obstetrics
• Ultrasonography: Heralding a new era in airway management.