Airway Management in Emergencies Book

Editors and Lead Authors/Contributing Authors     ix
Illustrations/Photography     x
Foreword     xi
Preface     xii
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     1
Definitive Airway Management: When Is It Time?     5
Airway Physiology and Anatomy     13
Oxygen Delivery Devices and Bag-Mask Ventilation     33
Tracheal Intubation by Direct Laryngoscopy     53
Alternative Intubation Techniques     93
Rescue Oxygenation     127
How to do Awake Tracheal Intubations-Oral and Nasal     151
Rapid Sequence Intubation-Why and How to do it     169
Postintubation Management     179
Approach to Tracheal Intubation     187
Response to an Encountered Difficult Airway     199
Airway Pharmacology     211
Central Nervous System Emergencies     237
Cardiovascular Emergencies     245
Respiratory Emergencies     251
The Critically Ill Patient     259
The Very Young and the Very Old Patient     265
Prehospital Airway Management Considerations     275
Human Factors in Airway Management     283
Index     291