Core Topics in Airway Management (Cambridge Medicine)

Management of the airway is an important and challenging aspect of many clinicians' work and is a source of complications and litigation. The new edition of this popular book remains a clear, practical and highly-illustrated guide to all necessary aspects of airway management. The book has been updated throughout, to cover all changes to best practice and clinical management and provides extensive coverage of the key skills and knowledge required to manage airways in a wide variety of patients and clinical settings. The best of the previous editions has been preserved, whilst new chapters on videolaryngoscopy, awake tracheal intubation, lung separation, airway ultrasonography, airway management in an epidemic and many more have been added. This is an essential text for anyone who manages the airway including trainees and specialists in anaesthesia, emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, prehospital medicine as well as nurses and other healthcare professionals. Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Contributors......Page 8 Foreword......Page 14 Preface......Page 16 1. Anatomy......Page 18 2. Physiology of Apnoea, Hypoxia and Airway Reflexes......Page 26 3. The Epidemiology of Airway Management Complications......Page 39 4. Structured Planning of Airway Management......Page 55 5. Pre-anaesthetic Airway Assessment......Page 67 6. Pre-anaesthetic Airway Endoscopy, Real and Virtual......Page 75 7. Ultrasonography for Airway Management......Page 80 8. Oxygenation: before, during and after Airway Management......Page 89 9. Awake Tracheal Intubation......Page 97 10. Drugs for Airway Management......Page 104 11. How to Avoid Morbidity from Aspiration of Gastric Content to the Lungs......Page 108 12. Face Mask Ventilation......Page 114 13. Supraglottic Airways......Page 119 14. Tracheal Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy......Page 139 15. Tracheal Tube Introducers (Bougies), Stylets and Airway Exchange Catheters......Page 147 16. Tracheal Intubation Using the Flexible Optical Bronchoscope......Page 157 17. Videolaryngoscopy......Page 170 18. Expiratory Ventilation Assistance and Ventilation through Narrow Tubes......Page 178 19. Multimodal Techniques for Airway Management......Page 183 20. Front of Neck Airway (FONA)......Page 188 21. Extubation......Page 194 22. The Airway in Obstetrics......Page 202 23. The Paediatric Airway......Page 209 24. Airway Management in Obesity......Page 223 25. Maxillofacial and Dental Surgery......Page 231 26. Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery: Airway Management......Page 240 27. Lung Separation......Page 260 28. Airway Management in the Critically Ill......Page 267 29. The Patient with a Tracheostomy......Page 276 30. Pre-hospital and Trauma Airway Management......Page 287 31. Airway Management during CPR......Page 295 32. The Bloody and Bleeding Airway......Page 299 33. The Airway in Anaesthesia for Transoral Robotic Surgery......Page 307 34. Departmental and Hospital Organisation......Page 310 35. Training in Airway Management......Page 316 36. Human Factors in Airway Management......Page 322 37. Decontamination of Airway Equipment......Page 333 38. Airway Management in a Respiratory Epidemic or Pandemic......Page 338 Index......Page 348 "It is a great honour and pleasure for us to have been asked to take over editing the 3rd edition of this book, so successfully previously edited by Ian Calder and Adrian Pearce. It is now almost 10 years since the last edition of the book was published and it is clearly time for an update. In this new 3rd edition we have updated only a small number of chapters - most have been completely rewritten to ensure they are up to date and relevant. While a few chapters have been combined we have added several new ones to ensure the book fully covers the range of challenges encountered during modern airway management. There are new full chapters on the epidemiology of airway complications, ultrasonography, videolaryngoscopy, combined techniques, expiratory ventilatory assist, airway management for robotic surgery, during CPR, for the bloody and bleeding airway and during prehospital emergency medicine"-- Provided by publisher Revised third edition of the leading airway management textbook for all clinicians and staff involved in this area, including chapters by experts introducing a fresh way of thinking about the subject. New topics covered include real and virtual airway endoscopy, the bleeding airway, airway management in a COVID pandemic and similar conditions.