Cases in Emergency Airway Management (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Berkow, Lauren C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Does your heart rate increase when you are paged to the emergency department or ICU for emergency airway management? Would you know how to handle the unexpected arrival of a patient with a gunshot wound to the neck and worsening airway compromise? This guide to critical airway emergencies will prepare you to safely manage these high-pressure situations. Case-based discussions focus on specific scenarios and provide background on the relevant medical issues along with practical guidance and algorithms. This systematic approach gives quick access to vital clinical information. Multidisciplinary in approach and written by experts from a variety of specialties, the content covers both pediatric and adult patients, encompassing many of the challenging airway situations you could be faced with. Every healthcare practitioner involved with emergency airway management will benefit from this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316650158
• Artikelnr.: 52917119

Inhaltsangabe

1. Anatomic consideration for airway management Gail I. Randel and Tracey
Straker; 2. Airway algorithms and guidelines Carlos A. Artime and Carin A.
Hagberg; 3. A general approach to management and evaluation of the
emergency airway Adam Schiavi and Christina Miller; 4. Management of
patients with angioedema Wendy H. L. Teoh and Michael Seltz Kristensen; 5.
Stridor due to upper airway obstruction/mass Sage P. Whitmore; 6.
Tracheostomy-related airway emergencies Vinciya Pandian, Mueen Ahmad and
Nasir Bhatti; 7. Subglottic airway emergencies Seth Manoach and Oren A.
Friedman; 8. Airway management in patients with tracheo-bronchial traumatic
injury Felipe Urdaneta; 9. Airway management of the patient with morbid
obesity Davide Cattano and Ruggero M. Corso; 10. Adult and pediatric
epiglottitis Calvin A. Brown, III; 11. Management of foreign body
aspiration in pediatric and adult patients Neal Patrick Moehrle and
Narasimhan Jagannathan; 12. Management of anterior mediastinal mass Basem
Abdelmalak; 13. The asthmatic crisis Sal J. Suau and Peter M. C. DeBlieux;
14. Airway management of the pregnant patient Mohammed A. Abdel-Rahim, Lori
Ann Wilkinson Suffredini and Jean-Pierre P. Ouanes; 15. Management of
patients with laryngospasm Kenneth H. Butler; 16. Airway compression by
expanding hematoma Michael Seltz Kristensen and Wendy H. L. Teoh; 17.
Extubation of the difficult airway Richard M. Cooper; 18. Management of
blunt and penetrating neck trauma Erik G. Laurin; 19. Airway management of
patients with smoke inhalation Jarrod M. Mosier; 20. Airway management in
cervical spine injury Jaime Daly and Keith J. Ruskin; 21. Airway management
in facial trauma Rob Reardon and Marc Martel; 22. Airway management in head
injury Christa San Luis and Athir Morad; 23. Airway management of pediatric
congenital anomalies Paul Baker and Natasha Woodman; 24. Management of
post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage Nick Dalesio; 25. Fiberoptic intubation
William Rosenblatt and P. Allan Klock, Jr; 26. Videolaryngoscopy for
emergency intubation Kenneth P. Rothfield and John C. Sakles; 27. Surgical
airway management Aaron E. Bair; 28. Communicating airway information:
difficult airway letters and the MedicAlert National Difficult
Airway/Intubation Registry Lorraine Foley, Vinciya Pandian and Lynette
Mark.