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LIBRERIA STUDIUM
Airway Management
Khan
Editore
Springer
Anno
2014
Pagine
270
ISBN
9783319085777
120,00 €
- A comprehensive book on airway management
- Covers all aspects of a challenging airway
- Easy to grasp and up to date management strategies for controversial airway scenarios
- Highlights and discusses debatable issues in state of art fashion
This book integrates chapters on a variety of topics ranging from airway physiology to scenarios of a difficult airway, and reviews and management options in patients who are known to have a difficult airway such as the difficult pediatric airway, the difficult airway in obstetrics, and those suffering from obstructive sleep apnea. All the chapters are written by renowned contributors from all over the world with tremendous experience and expertise in the various fields. The probable overspill of the secretions into the lungs is a tangible fear and this aspect has been fully addressed in the chapters.
The reviews presented herein describe difficult airway scenarios in a plethora of clinical settings that would help the anesthesiologists, emergency medicine specialists and the intensivists in taking steps in the right direction when posed with a challenging airway, thus ensuring safe anesthesia practice and patient care, which is our most cherished goal.
Contents
1 Physiology of the Airway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Yoo Kuen Chan
2 Airway Assessment: A Critical Appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Zahid H. Khan
3 Videolaryngoscopy and Indirect Intubating Aids in Airway
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sze-Ying Thong and Wendy H. L. Teoh
4 Perioperative Care of Ambulatory Anaesthesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anil Agarwal and Kamal Kishore
5 The Paediatric Airway: Normal and Abnormal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Ina Ismiarti Shariffuddin and Lucy Chan
6 Intubation of the Pediatric Patient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Josef Holzki
7 The Difficult Pediatric Airway: Management Options . . . . . . . . . 109
Mahesh Vakamudi
8 Perioperative Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea . . . . . . . . 129
Karen Mak and Edwin Seet
9 Airway Management in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) . . . . . . . . 147
Fauzia Anis Khan
10 Airway Management in Cervical Spine Injured Patients . . . . . . . 157
Srikanth Sridhar and Carin A. Hagberg
11 Indigenous Devices in Difficult Airway Management . . . . . . . . . . 177
Virendra K. Arya
12 Cricothyrotomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Virendra K. Arya
13 Surgical Airway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Jinbin Zhang and Orlando Hung
14 Surgical Approaches to Airway Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Surender K. Malhotra
15 Difficult Airway in Obstetrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Sunanda Gupta and Apoorva Gupta
16 Ultrasonography: Heralding a New Era in Airway
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Michael Seltz Kristensen and Wendy H. L. Teoh
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
