Cases in Emergency Airway Management
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Cases in Emergency Airway Management

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cases in Emergency Airway Management

About this book

Does your heart rate increase when you are paged to the emergency department or ICU for emergency airway management? Would you know how to handle the unexpected arrival of a patient with a gunshot wound to the neck and worsening airway compromise? This guide to critical airway emergencies will prepare you to safely manage these high-pressure situations. Case-based discussions focus on specific scenarios and provide background on the relevant medical issues along with practical guidance and algorithms. This systematic approach gives quick access to vital clinical information. Multidisciplinary in approach and written by experts from a variety of specialties, the content covers both pediatric and adult patients, encompassing many of the challenging airway situations you could be faced with. Every healthcare practitioner involved with emergency airway management will benefit from this book.

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Yes, you can access Cases in Emergency Airway Management by Lauren C. Berkow,John C. Sakles in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Anesthesiology & Pain Management. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Anatomic consideration for airway management
  9. Chapter 2 Airway algorithms and guidelines
  10. Chapter 3 A general approach to evaluation and management of the emergency airway
  11. Chapter 4 Management of patients with angioedema
  12. Chapter 5 Stridor due to upper airway obstruction/mass
  13. Chapter 6 Tracheostomy-related airway emergencies
  14. Chapter 7 Subglottic airway emergencies
  15. Chapter 8 Airway management in patients with tracheobronchial traumatic injury
  16. Chapter 9 Airway management of the patient with morbid obesity
  17. Chapter 10 Adult and pediatric epiglottitis
  18. Chapter 11 Management of foreign body aspiration in pediatric and adult patients
  19. Chapter 12 Management of anterior mediastinal mass
  20. Chapter 13 The asthmatic crisis
  21. Chapter 14 Airway management of the pregnant patient
  22. Chapter 15 Management of patients with laryngospasm
  23. Chapter 16 Airway compression by expanding hematoma
  24. Chapter 17 Extubation of the difficult airway
  25. Chapter 18 Management of blunt and penetrating neck trauma
  26. Chapter 19 Airway management of patients with smoke inhalation
  27. Chapter 20 Airway management in cervical spine injury
  28. Chapter 21 Airway management in facial trauma
  29. Chapter 22 Airway management in head injury
  30. Chapter 23 Airway management of pediatric congenital anomalies
  31. Chapter 24 Management of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage
  32. Chapter 25 Fiberoptic intubation
  33. Chapter 26 Video laryngoscopy for emergency intubation
  34. Chapter 27 Surgical airway management
  35. Chapter 28 Communicating airway information: difficult airway letters and the MedicAlert National Difficult Airway/Intubation Registry
  36. Index