The Difficult Airway An Atlas of Tools and Techniques for Clinical Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Glick, David B. (Editor), Cooper, Richard M. (Editor), Ovassapian, Andranik. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92849-4

The Difficult Airway provides comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways.� � The book begins with a review of current definitions of the difficult airway, its incidence, and the evolution of� algorithms to facilitate its m...

Table of Contents:

• 1.The Difficult Airway: Definitions and Algorithms
• 2.The� Expected Difficult Airway
• 3.The Role of Awake Intubation
• 4.Unanticipated Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy: Methods to Improve Its Success
• 5.The Role of Rigid Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy
• 6.Role of Rigid Video Laryngoscopy
• 7.The Role of the Supraglottic Airway
• 8.The Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy
• 9.The Role of Optical Stylets
• 10.The Role of the Lightwand
• 11.Role of retrograde intubation
• 12.The Role of the Combitube and Laryngeal Tube
• 13.The Role of Transtracheal Jet Ventilation
• 14.The Role of Surgical Airway Access
• 15.Evaluation and Management of the Difficult Pre-Hospital Airway
• 16.Extubation of the Difficult Airway.