Manual of emergency airway management

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Section 1: Approach To The Airway -- 1: Decision to intubate / Ron M Walls -- 2: Emergency airway algorithms / Ron M Walls -- 3: Rapid sequence intubation / Ron M Walls -- 4: Applied functional anatomy of the airway / Michael F Murphy -- 5: Supplemental oxygenation and bag-mask ventilation / Tobias D Barker and Robert E Schneider -- 6: Endotracheal intubation / Michael F Murphy, Tobias D Baker, and Robert E Schneider -- Section 2: Difficult And Failed Airways -- 7: Identification of the difficult and failed airway / Michael F Murphy, and Ron M Walls -- 8: Sedation and anesthesia for awake intubation / Michael F Murphy -- 9: Blind intubation techniques / Steven A Godwin -- 10: Extraglottic devices / Michael F Murphy -- 11: Lighted stylet intubation / Michael F Murphy, and Orlando R Hung -- 12: Flexible fiberoptic intubation / Michael F Murphy, and Peter M C DeBlieux DeBlieux -- 13: Fiberoptic stylets and guides / Calvin A Brown III, and Michael F Murphy -- 14 Video laryngoscopy / John C Sakles, and Calvin A Brown III -- 15: Optically enhanced laryngoscopy / John C Sakles, and Ross B Rodgers -- 16: Surgical airway techniques / Robert J Vissers, and Aaron E Bair -- Section 3: Pharmacology Of Airway Management -- 17: Pretreatment agents / David A Caro, and Stephen Bush -- 18: Sedative induction agents / David A Caro, and Katren R Tyler -- 19: Neuromuscular blocking agents / David A Caro, and Erik G Laurin -- Section 4: Pediatric Airway Management -- 20: Approach to the pediatric airway / Robert C Luten and John D McAllister -- 21: Pediatric airway techniques / Robert C Luten, and Steven A Godwin -- 22: Difficult pediatrics airway / Robert C Luten, and Niranjan Kissoon -- Section 5: EMS Airway Management -- 23: Airway management in the prehospital setting / Richard D Zane, and Michael F Murphy -- 24: Alternative devices for EMS airway management / Charles N Pozner, and Stephen J Nelson -- 25: Controversies in EMS airway management / Michael F Murphy -- Section 6: Special Clinical Circumstances -- 26: RSI using nondepolarizing agents / Ron M Walls -- 27: Trauma / Ron M Walls -- 28: Elevated intracranial pressure / Andy S Jagoda, and John J Bruns, Jr -- 29: Reactive airways disease / Bret P Nelson, and Andy S Jagoda -- 30: Distorted airways and acute upper airway obstruction / Michael F Murphy, and Richard D Zane -- 31: Critically ill patient / Michael F Murphy, Stephen Beed, and Ron M Walls -- 32: Pregnant patient / Holly Ann Muir, and Richard D Zane -- 33: Prolonged seizure activity / Robert J Vissers -- 34: Geriatric patient / Patrick A Nee, and Diane M Birnbaumer -- 35: Morbidly obese patient / Sarah H Wiser, and Richard D Zane -- 36: Foreign body in the adult airway / Ron M Walls -- Section 7: Mechanical Ventilation And Monitoring -- 37: Mechanical ventilation / Michael F Murphy, and Peter M C DeBlieux -- 38: Noninvasive mechanical ventilation / Peter M C DeBlieux, and Kerry B Broderick -- 39: Pulse oximetry and capnography/capnometry / Michael F Murphy, and Baruch Krauss -- Index.