The Difficult Airway

The Difficult Airway provides a comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways. The text begins with a description of the incidence and importance of the difficult airway and then describes the ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm created to facilitate the management of "difficult airways." The majority of the book features a comprehensive step-by-step approach to the rescue techniques listed as part of the ASA Algorithm. Noted experts in each of the techniques have been recruited by the book editors to present the information. Figures throughout the book illustrate important points and procedures. This is a wonderful resource for professionals in the health care field including anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians, emergency room physicians, nurses, and out-of-hospital first responders.

1.The Difficult Airway: Definitions and Algorithms.- 2.The Expected Difficult Airway.- 3.The Role of Awake Intubation.- 4.Unanticipated Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy: Methods to Improve Its Success.- 5.The Role of Rigid Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy.- 6.Role of Rigid Video Laryngoscopy.- 7.The Role of the Supraglottic Airway.- 8.The Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy.- 9.The Role of Optical Stylets.- 10.The Role of the Lightwand.- 11.Role of retrograde intubation.- 12.The Role of the Combitube and Laryngeal Tube.- 13.The Role of Transtracheal Jet Ventilation.- 14.The Role of Surgical Airway Access.- 15.Evaluation and Management of the Difficult Pre-Hospital Airway.- 16.Extubation of the Difficult Airway.