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Management of the difficult obstetric airway is a challenge to all anaesthesia care providers. Since there is no single test to reliably predict difficult airway, many a times the anaesthesiologist is faced with unexpectedly difficult airway problems. This chapter focuses on the anatomical and physiological changes that have implications for management of the airway for the anaesthesiologist and how to evaluate and prepare the parturient in the preoperative phase to avoid catastrophes. Guidelines and simplified algorithms to manage the expected and unexpected difficult ventilation or intubation scenario, with or without fetal distress, along with a failed intubation protocol has been incorporated.
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Gupta, S., Gupta, A. (2014). Difficult Airway in Obstetrics. In: Khan, Z. (eds) Airway Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08578-4_15
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