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Airway Management, Emergencies and the Difficult Airway

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Modern surgical practice necessitates safe and efficient management of the airway in order to administer anesthesia in a controlled manner. It is the primary role and responsibility of the anesthesiologist to assess, secure, and monitor a patient’s airway in the perioperative setting. Although performed on a daily basis in seemingly routine fashion, unanticipated problems in airway management will be encountered by even the most skilled anesthesiologist in anywhere from 1 % to 3 % of patients undergoing general endotracheal anesthesia [1]. The effective identification of such potentially “difficult” airways should be the focus of the preoperative assessment by both surgeon and anesthesiologist in order to develop a coordinated plan of care and minimize the risk of precipitating a true airway emergency.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1010, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Irene P. Osborn

  2. Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1189, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Andrew J. Kleinberger & Vivek V. Gurudutt M.D.

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  1. Otolaryngology, and, Structural & Chemical Biology, Department of Anesthesiology,, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, 10029, New York, USA

    Adam I. Levine

  2. Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology -, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, 10029, New York, USA

    Satish Govindaraj

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Osborn, I.P., Kleinberger, A.J., Gurudutt, V.V. (2013). Airway Management, Emergencies and the Difficult Airway. In: Levine, A., Govindaraj, S., DeMaria, Jr., S. (eds) Anesthesiology and Otolaryngology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4184-7_8

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