Emergency airway management
By: George Kovacs, J. Adam Law.
Contributors: Law, J. Adam.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780071470056
Subjects: Respiratory emergencies; Respiratory intensive care; Airway (Medicine); Respiratory organs -- Obstructions; Airway Obstruction -- therapy; Emergencies; Intubation, Intratracheal -- methods
Table of contents: title: Introduction to airway management in emergencies; title: Definitive airway management; title: Airway physiology and anatomy; title: Oxygen delivery devices and bag-mask ventilation; title: Intubation by direct laryngoscopy; title: Alternative intubation techniques; title: Rescue oxygenation; title: How to do awake intubations: oral and nasal; title: Rapid sequence intubation; title: Post intubation management; title: Approach to intubation; title: Response to an encountered difficult airway; title: Airway pharmacology; title: Central nervous system emergencies; title: Cardiovascular emergencies; title: Respiratory emergencies; title: The critically ill patient; title: The very young and the very old patient; title: Prehospital airway management considerations; title: Human factors in airway management.