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The Difficult Airway

An Atlas of Tools and Techniques for Clinical Management

  • Chapters are correlated to the ASA algorithm

  • Numerous full color illustrations provide step-by-step instruction

  • Written by experts in the field

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. The Difficult Airway: Definitions and Algorithms

    • Zdravka Zafirova, Avery Tung
    Pages 1-10
  3. The Expected Difficult Airway

    • Satya Krishna Ramachandran, Sachin Kheterpal
    Pages 11-32
  4. The Role of Awake Intubation

    • P. Allan Klock Jr.
    Pages 33-46
  5. Unanticipated Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy: Methods to Improve Its Success

    • Mark E. Nunnally, Michael R. Hernandez
    Pages 47-63
  6. The Role of Rigid Fiberoptic Laryngoscopes

    • Richard M. Cooper
    Pages 65-76
  7. Role of Rigid Video Laryngoscopy

    • Richard M. Cooper, Corina Lee
    Pages 77-111
  8. The Role of the Supraglottic Airway

    • Irene P. Osborn
    Pages 113-132
  9. The Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy

    • David B. Glick
    Pages 133-160
  10. The Role of Optical Stylets

    • Richard Levitan
    Pages 161-175
  11. The Role of the Lightwand

    • Ashutosh Wali
    Pages 177-190
  12. Role of Retrograde Intubation

    • Martin Dauber
    Pages 191-199
  13. The Role of the Combitube and Laryngeal Tube

    • Michael Woo, Michael F. O’Connor
    Pages 201-209
  14. The Role of Transtracheal Jet Ventilation

    • Julio Cortiñas-Díaz, Seth Manoach
    Pages 211-240
  15. The Role of Surgical Airway Access

    • Kerstin M. Stenson
    Pages 241-252
  16. Evaluation and Management of the Difficult Pre-Hospital Airway

    • Janis P. Tupesis, Nathan Van Dyk
    Pages 253-270
  17. Extubation of the Difficult Airway

    • Louise Ellard, Richard M. Cooper
    Pages 271-287
  18. Back Matter

    Pages 289-295

About this book

The Difficult Airway provides a comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways. The text begins with a description of the incidence and importance of the difficult airway and then describes the ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm created to facilitate the management of “difficult airways.” The majority of the book features a comprehensive step-by-step approach to the rescue techniques listed as part of the ASA Algorithm. Noted experts in each of the techniques have been recruited by the book editors to present the information. Figures throughout the book illustrate important points and procedures. This is a wonderful resource for professionals in the health care field including anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians, emergency room physicians, nurses, and out-of-hospital first responders.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This multiauthored book describes airway management strategies for patients where mechanical control of the airway is deemed difficult. … Practitioners in emergency medicine, prehospital care, anesthesiology, surgery, pulmonology, and critical care medicine are an appropriate audience. … This is an excellent introduction to consensus-based protocols for airway management that integrates available technologies to manage this problem. … This is a worthy contribution for the material it collects.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Book Reviews, November, 2013)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care, Chicago, USA

    David B. Glick, Andranik Ovassapian

  • University of Toronto, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Manage, Department of Anesthesia, Toronto, Canada

    Richard M Cooper

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Difficult Airway

  • Book Subtitle: An Atlas of Tools and Techniques for Clinical Management

  • Editors: David B. Glick, Richard M Cooper, Andranik Ovassapian

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92849-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-92848-7Published: 05 December 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3978-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-92849-4Published: 05 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 295

  • Topics: Anesthesiology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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