Main description:

Management of a patient with a difficult airway has undergone significant changes in recent years, with the introduction of both new guidelines and equipment. Chapters cover basic topics such as recognition of a difficult airway and general principles of management and then move onto more complicated topics such as the 'anticipated' and 'unanticipated' difficult airway scenarios. New equipment is outlined and reviewed, and a chapter focuses on extubation and its
importance. The book also includes a chapter on management in common clinical settings and a separate chapter covers paediatric airway management.

This book summarises the most up-to-date literature in a style that has direct clinical application to busy healthcare professionals. Designed to give readers a greater insight into the management of difficult airway as a clinical entity, this pocketbook is the ideal easy reference guide.

Contents:

1. Difficult airway: definitions, incidence and consequences ; 2. Difficult airway management: general principles ; 3. Basic anatomical, physiological and pharmacological principles of difficult airway management ; 4. Pre-operative airway assessment ; 5. Management of the anticipated difficult airway: without clinical upper airway obstruction ; 6. Management of the anticipated difficult airway: the patient with critical upper airway obstruction ; 7. Awake fibreoptic intubation ; 8. Management of the unanticipated difficult airway: the 'can't intubate, can ventilate' scenario ; 9. Unanticipated difficult airway intubation: 'can't intubate, can't ventilate' (CICV) scenario ; 10. Difficult airway in special situations ; 11. Management of paediatric difficult airway ; 12. Extubation and re-intubation strategy ; 13. New airway devices for difficult airway management ; 14. Airway training