The Walls manual of emergency airway management /

The Walls manual of emergency airway management / editor-in-chief, Calvin A. Brown III, Sakles, Nathan W. Mick. - 6th edition. - 1 online resource (xv, 479 pages) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Revised edition of: Manual of emergency airway management / editors, Ron Walls, Michael Murphy, 4th edition, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I: Principles of airway management -- The decision to intubate -- Identification of the difficult and failed airway -- The emergency airway algorithms -- Applied functional anatomy of the airway -- II: Oxygen delivery and mechanical ventilation -- Principles of preparatory oxygenation -- Noninvasive mechanical ventilation -- Mechanical ventilation -- Oxygen and carbon dioxide monitoring -- III: Basic airway management -- Bag-mask ventilation -- Extraglottic devices: supraglottic type -- Extraglottic devices: retroglottic type -- Managing the patient with an extraglottic device in place -- IV: Tracheal intubation -- Direct laryngoscopy -- Video laryngoscopy -- Optical and light-guided devices -- Flexible endoscopic intubation -- Fiberoptic and video intubating stylets -- Blind intubation techniques -- Surgical airway management -- V: Pharmacology and techniques of airway management -- Rapid sequence intubation -- Sedative induction agents -- Neuromuscular blocking agents -- Anesthesia and sedation for awake intubation -- VI: Pediatric airway management -- Differentiating aspects of the pediatric airway -- Pediatric airway techniques -- The difficult pediatric airway -- Foreign body in the pediatric airway -- VII: EMS airway management -- Introduction to EMS airway management -- Techniques in EMS airway management -- Difficult and failed airway management in EMS -- Controversies in EMS airway management -- VIII: Special clinical circumstances -- The unstable patient: cardiopulmonary optimization for emergency airway management -- The trauma patient -- Elevated ICP and HTN emergencies -- Reactive airways disease -- Distorted airways and acute upper airway obstruction -- The pregnant patient -- The patient with prolonged seizure activity -- The geriatric patient -- The morbidly obese patient -- Foreign body in the adult airway -- Safe extubation of the emergency patient

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Respiratory emergencies--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Respiratory intensive care--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Airway (Medicine)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Airway Obstruction--therapy.
Emergency Treatment.
Intubation, Intratracheal.

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