Management of a patient with a difficult airway has undergone significant changes in recent years, with the introduction of both new guidelines and equipment. Chapters cover basic topics such as recognition of a difficult airway and general principles of management and then move onto more complicated topics such as the 'anticipated' and 'unanticipated' difficult airway scenarios.
New equipment is outlined and reviewed, and a chapter focuses on extubation and its importance.
The book also includes a chapter on management in common clinical settings and a separate chapter covers paediatric airway management.
This book summarises the most up-to-date literature in a style that has direct clinical application to busy healthcare professionals. Designed to give readers a greater insight into the management of difficult airway as a clinical entity, this pocketbook is the ideal easy reference guide.
1: Rehana Iqbal and Atul Kapila: Difficult airway: definitions, incidence and consequences 2: Mansukh Popat: Difficult airway management: general principles 3: Jaideep Pandit: Basic anatomical, physiological and pharmacological principles of difficult airway management 4: Chris Frerk and Kawshala Peiris: Pre-operative airway assessment 5: Mike Goodwin: Management of the anticipated difficult airway: without clinical upper airway obstruction 6: Stuart W. Benham: Management of the anticipated difficult airway: the patient with critical upper airway obstruction 7: Mansukh Popat and Mridula Rai: Awake fibreoptic intubation 8: Alexander G. Marfin and Jairaj Rangasami: Management of the unanticipated difficult airway: the 'can't intubate, can ventilate' scenario 9: Ben Maxwell and Hamid Manji: Unanticipated difficult airway intubation: 'can't intubate, can't ventilate' (CICV) scenario 10: Jenny H. Thompson: Difficult airway in special situations 11: David Mason and Sara McDouall: Management of paediatric difficult airway 12: Ravi Dravid and Gene Lee: Extubation and re-intubation strategy 13: Imran Ahmad and Shaun Scott: New airway devices for difficult airway management 14: Imogen Davies and Mansukh Popat: Airway training
Mansukh Popat is Consultant Anaesthetist, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, and Honorary Senior Clinical lecturer, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
