Manual of Emergency Airway Management

by Walls, Ron M.; Luten, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780781784948
• ISBN10: 0781784948
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-16
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

Prepared by the faculty of the National Emergency Airway Management Course, this manual is an expert, practical guide to emergency airway management in any adult or pediatric patient. It offers step-by-step instructions on techniques, drug administration, and prevention and management of complications and includes a complete section on difficult clinical scenarios. The book is packed with easy-to-follow algorithms and diagrams and helpful mnemonics. Each of the Third Edition's chapters includes improved full-color illustrations and updated evidence-based analyses of procedures. A new section geared to the prehospital setting presents current National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians guidelines, including alternative airway devices.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Approach to the Airway
The Decision to Intubate	p. 1
The Emergency Airway Algorithms	p. 8
Rapid Sequence Intubation	p. 23
Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway	p. 36
Supplemental Oxygenation and Bag-Mask Ventilation	p. 47
Endotracheal Intubation	p. 62
Difficult and Failed Airways
Identification of the Difficult and Failed Airway	p. 81
Sedation and Anesthesia for Awake Intubation	p. 94
Blind Intubation Techniques	p. 104
Extraglottic Devices	p. 112
Lighted Stylet Intubation	p. 139
Flexible Fiberoptic Intubation	p. 149
Fiberoptic Stylets and Guides	p. 158
Video Laryngoscopy	p. 167
Optically Enhanced Laryngoscopy	p. 185
Surgical Airway Techniques	p. 192
Pharmacology of Airway Management
Pretreamtent Agents	p. 221
Sedative Induction Agents	p. 234
Neuromuscular Blocking Agents	p. 248
Pediatric Airway Management
Approach to the Pediatric Airway	p. 263
Pediatric Airway Techniques	p. 282
The Difficult Pediatrics Airway	p. 291
EMS Airway Management
Airway Management in the Prehospital Setting	p. 303
Alternative Devices for EMS Airway Management	p. 313
Controversies in EMS Airway Management	p. 320
Special Clinical Circumstances
RSI Using Nondepolarizing Agents	p. 326
Trauma	p. 332
Elevated Intracranial Pressure	p. 343
Reactive Airways Disease	p. 351
Distorted Airways and Acute Upper Airway Obstruction	p. 361
The Critically Ill Patient	p. 367
The Pregnant Patient	p. 379
Prolonged Seizure Activity	p. 385
The Geriatric Patient	p. 391
The Morbidly Obese Patient	p. 397
Foreign Body in the Adult Airway	p. 407
Mechanical Ventilation and Monitoring
Mechanical Ventilation	p. 413
Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation	p. 422
Pulse Oximetry and Capnography/Capnometry	p. 428
Index	p. 439
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