Anesthesia emergencies can occur suddenly in the operating room or procedural areas, even with proper procedures and preparation. The anesthesia provider needs to be able to anticipate and quickly respond to these emergencies for a successful outcome. Checklists and cognitive aids can assist in predicting and quickly responding to an emergent event. Emergency Anesthesia Procedures describes the management of many of the anesthesia emergency events that can occur during a surgical procedure, and provides checklists and clearly defined steps designed to assist the reader during the management and response to an emergency. Each chapter provides symptoms and differential diagnoses as well as needed equipment and medications needed for a variety of emergent scenarios. Each chapter then presents a management strategy using clearly defined steps with tips on techniques to address the emergency, as well as how to address potential complications and pearls for success. As such, this book functions as a cognitive aid as well as an oral board review book and should appeal to established anesthesia providers as well as anesthesia providers in training.
Contributors Part 1 Airway, Breathing, Lungs Chapter 1: Airway Fire, Pavel Balduyeu and Robert G. Loeb Chapter 2: Bronchospasm, Joseph LaGrew II, Adam Chadwick, Sandra Gonzalez, and Sonia Mehta Chapter 3: Foreign Bodies in the Airway and Esophagus, Lauren Moore, Tracy Wester, and Alison Ellis Chapter 4: Laryngospasm, Joseph LaGrew, Adam Chadwick, Sandra Gonzalez, and Sonia Mehta Chapter 5: One-Lung Ventilation, Patricia Nwajuaku, Dustin L. Hegland, and Joseph C. Goldstein Chapter 6: Unanticipated Difficult Airway, Lauren C. Berkow Chapter 7: Tracheostomy Complications, Matthew Hernandez and Arturo Torres Part 2 Cardiac Chapter 8: Arrhythmias, Loren R. Francis and Eric W. Nelson Chapter 9: Cardiac Tamponade, Matthew M. Andoniadis Chapter 10: Myocardial Ischemia, Alberto Bursian and Basma Mohamed Chapter 11: Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA) and Asystole, Claudia Sotillo and Basma Mohamed Chapter 12: Management of Ventricular Tachycardia and Ventricular Fibrillation, Amanda Redding, Marc Hassid, and Ryan Smith Chapter 13: Tension Pneumothorax, Matthew Desmond and Yury Zasimovich Chapter 14: Vascular Access: Peripheral Venous, Central Venous, and Intraosseous Access, Linda Le-Wendling, Jayme N. Looper, and Lisa Gu Chapter 15: Venous Air Embolism, Sindhu Reddy Nimma and Christoph Nikolaus Seubert Part 3 Bleeding, Blood, Transfusions Chapter 16: Hemorrhage and Massive Transfusion Protocols, Christopher Heine and Tod Brown Chapter 17: Intraoperative Management of the Bleeding Patient, Renuka M. George and Loren R. Francis Chapter 18: Post-Tonsillectomy Bleeding, Rhae Battles, Adrian Ching, Sandra Gonzalez, and Sonia Mehta Chapter 19: Transfusion Reactions, Geoffrey D. Panjeton, Alex Coons, Jayme N. Looper, and Jeffrey D. F. White Part 4 Neurologic Chapter 20: Management of the Unstable Cervical Spine, Peggy White and Christopher W. Maxwell Jr. Chapter 21: Emergenct Craniotomy, Nelson N. Algarra and Taylor Brown Chapter 22: Perioperative Complications of Neuraxial Anesthesia, Richa Wardhan and Adjuyigbe Olusegun Adaralegbe Part 5 Allergic Reaction, Toxicity Chapter 23: Anaphylaxis, Richa Sutaria and Cosmin Guta Chapter 24: Angiodema, Alberto Bursian and Yury Zasimovich Chapter 25: Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST), Timothy V. Feldheim and Rene Przkora Part 6 Metabolic Chapter 26: Malignant Hyperthermia, Cameron R. Smith Part 7 OB, Neonatal Chapter 27: Amniotic Fluid Embolism, Adam Wendling and Brandon Lopez Chapter 28: Anesthetic Management of Emergency Cesarean Delivery, M. Anthony Cometa and Adam L Wendling Chapter 29: Anesthetic Management of Morbidly Adherent Placenta (Accreta/Increta/Percreta), Brandon M. Lopez and M. Anthony Cometa Part 8 Equipment, Facilities, CRM Chapter 30: Anesthesia Machina Failures, Isaac Luria and Robert G. Loeb Chapter 31: Operating Room Fires, Jennifer R. Matos and David Gutman Chapter 32: Crisis Resource Management, Lauren C. Berkow and Keith Ruskin Index
Lauren C. Berkow, MD, FASA is a Professor of Anesthesiology at University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida and a Past-President of the Society for Airway Management. Her areas of expertise include Neuroanesthesia, Sustainability, Difficult Airway Management, and Patient Safety.
