Main description:

The book provides up-to-date and easy to understand information on airway management with special emphasis on practical management along with required theory background and key points. It covers all aspects of airway management including education, training, audit, controversies, recent advances, case discussion, etc. The book covers all the techniques of airway management like the use of video laryngoscopy, fibre-optic intubation, and retrograde intubation. Further, the book includes a chapter on airway management during transmittable infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. The book also includes separate chapters on the available guidelines; discussion of interesting cases; neonatal airway; and out of hospital airway management. The book is written by experienced authors keeping in mind the unique problems and situations related to this specialized and vital area of patient management. It presents summary and key points in each chapter. Overall, this book provides practical, specialty oriented and patient centered approach to airway management.

The book is a useful resource for postgraduate students, residents and fellows in anesthesia, emergency medicine, critical care medicine. It is also relevant for anesthesiologists, intensivists, emergency physicians and internal medicine physicians.

Contents:

Part 1 General
1 History and Milestones of Airway Management

2 Anatomy and physiology of the airway applied

3 Preoperative Airway Assessment

4 Imaging of the Airway

Part 2 Equipment

5 Masks and Airways

6 Supraglottic airway devices

7 Endotracheal Tubes

8 Direct Laryngoscopes

9 Video Laryngoscopes

10 Flexible Video Endoscopes

11 Airway Adjuncts

12 Lung Isolation Devices

13 Difficult Airway Cart

Part 3 Practice

14 Principles of Airway Management

15 Overview of Airway Techniques and Decision Making

16 Oxygenation During Airway Management

Part 4 Techniques

17 Airway Management Guidelines: An overview

18 Mask Ventilation

19 Supraglottic Airway Devices: Clinical Applications

20 Endotracheal Intubation - Direct and Video Laryngoscope Guided Techniques

21 Flexible Video Endoscopic Guided Airway Management

22 Unconventional Intubation Techniques

23 Airway Management in Thoracic Surgery

24 Airway Anaesthesia

25 Front of Neck Access Procedures

26 Extubation

Part 5 Specialty

27 Airway Management in Paediatric Anesthesia

28 Airway Management in Obstetrics

29 Airway Management in Trauma

30 Airway Management in Obesity

31 Airway Management in Maxillofacial Surgery

32 Airway Management in Neuroanesthesia

33 Airway Management in Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

34 Airway Management in Airway emergency

35 Airway Management in Intensive Care Unit

36 Airway Management in Prehospital Care

37 Airway Management in emergency Department

38 Airway Management in ENT procedures

39 Airway Management in Neonates

40 Airway Management in Infectious diseases

Part 6 Others

41 Complications of Airway Management

42 Controversies in Airway Management

43 Airway Management in Low Resource Settings

44 Recent Advances in Airway Management

45 Simulation Based Airway Training