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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.… (more)
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Section 1. Approach to the airway
1. The decision to intubate / Ron M. Walls
2. The emergency airway algorithms / Ron M. Walls
3. Rapid sequence intubation / Ron M. Walls
4. Applied functional anatomy of the airway / Michael F. Murphy
Section 2. Airway management techniques
5. Bag/mask ventilation and endotracheal intubation / Robert E. Schneider and Michael F. Murphy
6. Identification of the difficult and failed airway / Michael F. Murphy and Ron M. Walls
7. Sedation and anesthesia for awake intubation / Michael F. Murphy
8. Blind intubation techniques / Steven A. Godwin
9. Laryngeal mask airways / Michael F. Murphy
10. Supraglottic devices / Michael F. Murphy and Robert E. Schneider
11. Lighted stylet intubation / Michael F. Murphy and Orlando R. Hung
12. Flexible fiberoptic intubation / Michael F. Murphy
13. Rigid and semirigid fiberoptic intubation / Michael F. Murphy and J. Adam Law
14. Video laryngoscopy / John C. Sakles
15. Surgical airway techniques / Robert J. Vissers and Aaron E. Bair
Section 3. The pharmacology of airway management
16. Pretreatment agents / Robert E. Schneider and David A. Caro
17. Sedative and induction agents / Robert E. Schneider and David A. Caro
18. Neuromuscular blocking agents / Robert E. Schneider and David A. Caro
Section 4. Pediatric airway management
19. Approach to the pediatric airway / Robert C. Luten and Niranjan Kissoon
20. Pediatric airway techniques / Robert C. Luten and Stephen A. Godwin
21. The difficult pediatric airway / Robert C. Luten and Niranjan Kissoon
Section 5. Special clinical circumstances
22. RSI using nondepolarizing agents / John C. Sakles and Ron M. Walls
23. Trauma / Michael A. Gibbs
24. Increased intracranial pressure / Andy S. Jagoda and John J. Bruns, Jr.
25. Reactive airways disease / Kerryann B. Broderick and Andy S. Jagoda
26. Distorted airways and upper airway obstruction / Michael F. Murphy and Erik D. Barton
27. The critically ill patient / Michael F. Murphy
28. The pregnant patient / Michael F. Murphy and Richard D. Zane
29. Prolonged seizure activity / Robert J. Vissers
30. The geriatric patient / Diane M. Birnbaumer
31. The morbidly obese patient / Richard D. Zane
32. Foreign body in the adult airway / Ron M. Walls
33. Airway management in the prehospital setting / Richard D. Zane and Ron M. Walls
Section 6. Monitoring and mechanical ventilation
34. Mechanical ventilation / Michael F. Murphy and Gregory W. Murphy
35. Noninvasive ventilation / Kerryann B. Broderick
36. Pulse oximetry / Michael F. Murphy.