Manual of Emergency Airway Management

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Ron M. Walls, Michael Francis Murphy
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012 - Medical - 447 pages

Manual of Emergency Airway Management, now in its 4th edition, is a practical guide to emergency airway management in any adult or pediatric patient and offers step-by-step instructions on techniques, drug administration, and prevention and management of complications.The book may be used in conjunction with the Difficult Airway CourseTM, or on its own. The text has been reorganized to reflect the decision-making process of emergency care providers treating the patient in distress.

Features include:

  • Completely reorganized chapters into cohesive sections
  • Expanded discussion of videolaryngoscopes, including newer, low-cost alternatives
  • More illustrations, with expanded "how to" descriptions
  • Revised and updated airway algorithms
 

Contents

Oxygen Delivery
45
Basic Airway Management
79
Tracheal Intubation
120
Rapid Sequence Intubation
220
Pretreatment Agents
233
Sedative Induction Agents
241
Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
254
Anesthesia and Sedation for Awake Intubation
266
Pediatric Airway Management
275
EMS Airway Management
321
Special Clinical Circumstances
347
Index
425
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