Bookeditor-in-chief, Ron M. Walls ; senior editor, Michael F. Murphy.
Summary: From the Publisher: 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.
Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Section 1: Approach To The Airway
1: Decision to intubate / Ron M Walls
2: Emergency airway algorithms / Ron M Walls
3: Rapid sequence intubation / Ron M Walls
4: Applied functional anatomy of the airway / Michael F Murphy
5: Supplemental oxygenation and bag-mask ventilation / Tobias D Barker and Robert E Schneider
6: Endotracheal intubation / Michael F Murphy, Tobias D Baker, and Robert E Schneider
Section 2: Difficult And Failed Airways
7: Identification of the difficult and failed airway / Michael F Murphy, and Ron M Walls
8: Sedation and anesthesia for awake intubation / Michael F Murphy
9: Blind intubation techniques / Steven A Godwin
10: Extraglottic devices / Michael F Murphy
11: Lighted stylet intubation / Michael F Murphy, and Orlando R Hung
12: Flexible fiberoptic intubation / Michael F Murphy, and Peter M C DeBlieux DeBlieux
13: Fiberoptic stylets and guides / Calvin A Brown III, and Michael F Murphy
14 Video laryngoscopy / John C Sakles, and Calvin A Brown III
15: Optically enhanced laryngoscopy / John C Sakles, and Ross B Rodgers
16: Surgical airway techniques / Robert J Vissers, and Aaron E Bair
Section 3: Pharmacology Of Airway Management
17: Pretreatment agents / David A Caro, and Stephen Bush
18: Sedative induction agents / David A Caro, and Katren R Tyler
19: Neuromuscular blocking agents / David A Caro, and Erik G Laurin
Section 4: Pediatric Airway Management
20: Approach to the pediatric airway / Robert C Luten and John D McAllister
21: Pediatric airway techniques / Robert C Luten, and Steven A Godwin
22: Difficult pediatrics airway / Robert C Luten, and Niranjan Kissoon
Section 5: EMS Airway Management
23: Airway management in the prehospital setting / Richard D Zane, and Michael F Murphy
24: Alternative devices for EMS airway management / Charles N Pozner, and Stephen J Nelson
25: Controversies in EMS airway management / Michael F Murphy
Section 6: Special Clinical Circumstances
26: RSI using nondepolarizing agents / Ron M Walls
27: Trauma / Ron M Walls
28: Elevated intracranial pressure / Andy S Jagoda, and John J Bruns, Jr
29: Reactive airways disease / Bret P Nelson, and Andy S Jagoda
30: Distorted airways and acute upper airway obstruction / Michael F Murphy, and Richard D Zane
31: Critically ill patient / Michael F Murphy, Stephen Beed, and Ron M Walls
32: Pregnant patient / Holly Ann Muir, and Richard D Zane
33: Prolonged seizure activity / Robert J Vissers
34: Geriatric patient / Patrick A Nee, and Diane M Birnbaumer
35: Morbidly obese patient / Sarah H Wiser, and Richard D Zane
36: Foreign body in the adult airway / Ron M Walls
Section 7: Mechanical Ventilation And Monitoring
37: Mechanical ventilation / Michael F Murphy, and Peter M C DeBlieux
38: Noninvasive mechanical ventilation / Peter M C DeBlieux, and Kerry B Broderick
39: Pulse oximetry and capnography/capnometry / Michael F Murphy, and Baruch Krauss
Index.