Manual of Emergency Airway Management

Prepared by the faculty of the National Emergency Airway Management Course, this manual is an expert, practical guide to emergency airway management in any adult or pediatric patient. It offers step-by-step instructions on techniques, drug administration, and prevention and management of complications and includes a complete section on difficult clinical scenarios. The book is packed with easy-to-follow algorithms and diagrams and helpful mnemonics.

Each of the Third Edition's chapters includes improved full-color illustrations and updated evidence-based analyses of procedures. A new section geared to the prehospital setting presents current National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians guidelines, including alternative airway devices.


Table Of Contents
Section1: Approach to the Airway

The Decision to Intubate


The Emergency Airway Algorithms


Rapid Sequence Intubation


Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway


Supplemental Oxygenation and Bag Mask Ventilation


Endotracheal Intubation


section 2:The Difficult And Failed Airway

Identification of the Difficult and Failed Airway


Sedation and Anesthesia for Awake Intubation


Blind Intubation Techniques


Extraglottic Devices


Lighted Stylet Intubation


Flexible Fiberoptic Intubation


Fiberoptic Stylets and Guides


Video Laryngoscopy


Optically Enhanced Laryngoscopy


Surgical Airway Management


Sectioin 3:Pharmacology of Airway Management

Pretreatment Agents


Sedative and Induction Agents


Neuromuscular Blocking Agents


Section 4:Pediatric Airway Management

Approach to the Pediatric Airway


Pediatric Airway Techniques


The Difficult Airway in Pediatrics


Section 5: EMS Airway Management

Airway Management in the Prehospital Setting


Alternative Devices for EMS Airway Management


Controversies in EMS Airway Management


Section 6: Special Clinical Circumstances

RSI Using Nondepolarizing Agents


Trauma


Elevated Intracranial Pressure


Reactive Airways Disease


Distorted Airway or Upper Airway Obstruction


The Critically Ill Patient


The Pregnant Patient


Prolonged Seizure Activity


The Geriatric Patient


The Morbidly Obese Patient


Foreign Body in the Adult Airway


Section 7: Mechanical Ventilation and Monitoring

Mechanical Ventilation


Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation


Pulse Oximetry and Capnography/Capnometry

Index