Download or read book Airway Management in Emergencies written by George Kovacs and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the clinical skills necessary to treat any emergency airway problem Written by international experts in a style that's concise, practical and to the point, Airway Management in Emergencies covers all the options-both medical and surgical-for managing any patient's airway in an emergency. Here, you'll find the core knowledge and accompanying management protocols necessary to assess, oxygenate, intubate, and monitor patients requiring emergency airway management. In each chapter, this high-yield coverage is supported by evidence-based algorithms, synoptic tips, and real-world case studies that show you how to resolve any difficult airway scenario you would likely encounter in clinical practice. Features Highlighted key points in each chapter Skill-sharpening review of “core knowledge” Over 100 figures that include a combination of original art work, fluoroscopy and Airwaycam® images. A practical overview of both established and newer emergency airway equipment Far-reaching coverage addressing both the anticipated and unanticipated difficult airway, the uncooperative patient, and the 'failed' airway. Chapters on treating a range of patient populations and clinical presentations including an approach to the pediatric, the elderly, and the critically ill patient Perspectives on when and how to perform both 'awake' and rapid sequence intubations and effectively administer post-intubation care A closing chapter on the interrelationship between human performance and patient safety-and how to optimize both in caring for patients requiring acute airway management

Download or read book Airway Management in Emergencies written by George Kovacs and published by PMPH-USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airway Management in Emergencies 2/e covers all the options both medical and surgical for managing any patient's airway in an emergency. Here, you'll find the core knowledge and accompanying management protocols necessary to assess, oxygenate, intubate and monitor patients requiring emergency airway management. This new edition expands coverage of airway management in the pre-hospital environment and chapters on airway management with airway and systemic co-morbidities. Additionally, there is enhanced content to appeal to various clinicians (MD and non-MD eg. Paramedics). Key Features

Download or read book Manual of Emergency Airway Management written by Ron M. Walls and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2012 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management written by Calvin A. Brown and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management is the world’s most trusted reference on emergency airway management, and is the foundation text in the nationally recognized The Difficult Airway Course: EmergencyTM and The Difficult Airway Course: EMSTM. Its practical, hands-on approach provides all the concrete guidance you need to effectively respond to any airway emergency, whether inside the hospital, emergency department, urgent care setting, or anywhere else where airway emergencies may occur. Apply the latest evidence-based approaches thanks to state-of-the-art coverage that includes new chapters on “The Difficult Airway Cart” and “Human Factors in Emergency Airway Management,” expanded coverage on delayed sequence intubation (DSI), and comprehensive updates throughout. Efficiently overcome any challenge in airway management with the aid of step-by-step instructions, mnemonics, easy-to-follow algorithms, and rich illustrations. Glean expert insights from a brand-new editorial team led by Calvin Brown III, MD, who is Dr. Walls’ colleague and protégé, and consisting of the same experts who teach The Difficult Airway Course: EmergencyTM and The Difficult Airway Course: AnesthesiaTM.

Download or read book The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management written by Calvin A. Brown and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognized as the gold standard emergency airway management textbook, The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Sixth Edition, remains the most trusted reference on this challenging topic. This practical reference, edited by Drs. Calvin A. Brown III, John C. Sakles, Nathan W. Mick, Jarrod M. Mosier, and Darren A. Braude, is the foundation text for these nationally recognized programs: The Difficult Airway Course: EmergencyTM, The Difficult Airway Course: Critical CareTM, The Difficult Airway Course: EMSTM, and The Difficult Airway Course: Residency EditionTM. Its hands-on approach provides the concrete guidance you need to effectively respond wherever adult or pediatric airway emergencies may occur, including in and out of hospital settings, emergency departments, and urgent care centers.

Download or read book Core Topics in Airway Management written by Ian Calder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every anaesthetist reaches the end of their career with a collection of difficult airway experiences. Managing airway challenges relies on a combination of good clinical practice, knowledge of relevant basic sciences and critical evaluation of every aspect of airway care. This new edition of Core Topics in Airway Management provides any trainee or consultant involved in airway techniques with practical, clinically relevant coverage of the core skills and knowledge required to manage airways in a wide variety of patients and clinical settings. All new procedures and equipment are reviewed, and detailed chapters advise on airway issues in a range of surgical procedures. This edition also contains a series of practical questions and answers, enabling the reader to evaluate their knowledge. Written by leading airway experts with decades of experience managing difficult airways, Core Topics in Airway Management, 2nd edition is an invaluable tool for anaesthetists, intensivists, and emergency physicians.

Download or read book Emergency Airway Management written by Andrew Burtenshaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From principles of oxygen delivery and patient assessment, through rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia and tracheal intubation, to the difficult and failed emergency airway, this book from an expert team of clinicians guides the reader through every aspect of emergency airway management. Retaining the concise, accessible format of the first edition, it includes a new section on human factors and improving teamwork and performance, an expanded special circumstances section, and a summary of the 4th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Difficult Airway Society and its implications for practice. Updated guidelines, new technologies such as videolaryngoscopy, and recent evidence have all been incorporated into the chapter content, ensuring that the book reflects best current practice. This thoroughly updated new edition remains an essential resource for navigating a highly challenging clinical scenario and will be of value to emergency medicine, intensive care, anaesthesia and acute medicine clinicians.

Download or read book Practical Emergency Resuscitation and Critical Care written by Kaushal Shah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of a succinct and portable text reviewing the clinical approach to emergency medicine and critical care.

Download or read book Cases in Emergency Airway Management written by Lauren C. Berkow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your heart rate increase when you are paged to the emergency department or ICU for emergency airway management? Would you know how to handle the unexpected arrival of a patient with a gunshot wound to the neck and worsening airway compromise? This guide to critical airway emergencies will prepare you to safely manage these high-pressure situations. Case-based discussions focus on specific scenarios and provide background on the relevant medical issues along with practical guidance and algorithms. This systematic approach gives quick access to vital clinical information. Multidisciplinary in approach and written by experts from a variety of specialties, the content covers both pediatric and adult patients, encompassing many of the challenging airway situations you could be faced with. Every healthcare practitioner involved with emergency airway management will benefit from this book.

Download or read book Manual of Emergency Airway Management written by Ron Walls and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Emergency Airway Management written by Jonathan Benger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few situations more challenging and stressful than airway compromise in acutely ill patients. This book describes the principles of emergency airway management outside the operating theatre, systematically leading the reader through the components of successful practice from the principles of oxygen delivery and patient assessment to rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia, tracheal intubation and the difficult and failed emergency airway. Supported by clear diagrams and algorithms, the text includes sections on a range of special circumstances and up-to-date considerations of non-invasive ventilatory support, post-intubation management and commonly used drugs. Compiled by an expert team of physicians from emergency medicine, anaesthesia and critical care, Emergency Airway Management is an invaluable resource for trainee doctors in all acute specialties who may be called upon to manage a patient's airway in an emergency situation. It is also the official course manual of the UK Training in Emergency Airway Management (TEAM) course.

Download or read book Manual of Emergency Airway Management written by Ron M. Walls and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2008 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by the faculty of the National Emergency Airway Management Course, this manual is an expert, practical guide to emergency airway management in any adult or pediatric patient. It offers step-by-step instructions on techniques, drug administration, and prevention and management of complications and includes a complete section on difficult clinical scenarios. The book is packed with easy-to-follow algorithms and diagrams and helpful mnemonics. Each of the Third Edition's chapters includes improved full-color illustrations and updated evidence-based analyses of procedures. A new section geared to the prehospital setting presents current National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians guidelines, including alternative airway devices.

Download or read book Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care written by Kamen Valchanov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most patients with critical cardiac or thoracic conditions will at some stage pass through the cardiothoracic critical care unit. Critical care presents more complex clinical data than any other area of medicine. The new edition of Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care focuses on the latest practise in the management of patients in cardiothoracic intensive care. The practice of cardiothoracic critical care medicine is constantly evolving, and this new edition reflects the modernized learning styles for trainees. Each chapter includes key learning points as well as sample multiple choice questions and answers to assist in exam preparation. This edition also features updated chapters on ECMO, perioperative management of patients undergoing emergency cardiothoracic surgery, and advanced modes of organ support for patients. This text provides key knowledge in a concise and accessible manner for trainees, clinicians and consultants from specialities and disciplines such as cardiology and anaesthesia, and nursing and physiotherapy.

Download or read book The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management written by Calvin A. Brown (III.) and published by LWW. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022! The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management is the world's most trusted reference on emergency airway management, and is the foundation text in the nationally recognized The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency(TM) and The Difficult Airway Course: EMS(TM). Its practical, hands-on approach provides all the concrete guidance you need to effectively respond to any airway emergency, whether inside the hospital, emergency department, urgent care setting, or anywhere else where airway emergencies may occur. Apply the latest evidence-based approaches thanks to state-of-the-art coverage that includes new chapters on "The Difficult Airway Cart" and "Human Factors in Emergency Airway Management," expanded coverage on delayed sequence intubation (DSI), and comprehensive updates throughout. Efficiently overcome any challenge in airway management with the aid of step-by-step instructions, mnemonics, easy-to-follow algorithms, and rich illustrations. Glean expert insights from a brand-new editorial team led by Calvin Brown III, MD, who is Dr. Walls' colleague and protégé, and consisting of the same experts who teach The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency(TM) and The Difficult Airway Course: Anesthesia(TM) - additionally, Dr. Ron Walls continues to actively author content within this edition!

Download or read book The Airway written by Robert H. Daily and published by Mosby. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a reference text and a practical manual for use within the clinical setting, this book bases all airway management procedures on current standards of practice. It covers management procedures for the first 30-60 minutes of airway closure, and the pre-hospital management of airway emergencies.

Download or read book Master Techniques in Upper and Lower Airway Management written by William H. Rosenblatt and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airway management is one of primary responsibilities of anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists in the OR. The care of patients with airway disease is an especially significant challenge. These patients often represent the highest risk population in anesthetic practice because of the potential for catastrophic and possibly fatal airway loss. This book will provide a video-illustrated, practical guide to the management of routine and complex patients and procedures. Each case will begin with a general discussion of the important topics encountered in the case. Then the case will be presented along with a series of questions. Images and video will present the patient's anatomy as well as use of intubation and other management equipment. Video and images will present relevant portions of the operative procedure. Each question will then be fully answered.

Download or read book Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway Second Edition written by Orlando Hung and published by McGraw-Hill Education / Medical. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the clinical challenge of the difficult and failed airway with this updated full-color guide A Doody's Core Title for 2015! Includes DVD with airway techniques! "This beautifully illustrated and extensively referenced textbook provides a comprehensive review of the available options for airway management....For the busy clinician, this book provides the most up-to-date review available of the many innovations that have been introduced in the past 10 years."--Steven L. Shafer, MD, Columbia University Written by the founders of The Difficult Airway Course: AnesthesiaTM and utilizing an instructive case-based approach, this text/DVD presents all of the leading-edge principles, tools, and procedures of airway assessment and management. The scope of the book encompasses the many airway devices that have been developed since the publication of the first edition, many of which have the potential to markedly enhance airway management. Extensively revised and updated, the second edition of Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway emphasizes how airway management is context-sensitive: included are strategies for treating patients in a range of settings, from prehospital care to the ER, as well as proven techniques for special patient populations. In addition, new chapters have been added to further refresh the book’s content and provide you with a solid grasp of the most critical topics in this fast-evolving area. The book’s effective organization has been maintained, beginning with the first section’s focus on the basic foundations of difficult and failed airway management. The second section reviews must-know airway devices and techniques, while the third part of the text introduces case studies that thoroughly examine the application of these techniques in complex clinical situations. A final section covers the practical considerations, such as difficult airway carts and teaching and simulation in airway management. FEATURES Skill-building, case-based approach highlights the right tools and techniques for stabilizing the patient, plus important safety precautions relevant to the clinical setting New “context-sensitive” focus links airway techniques to specific clinical environments, including airway cases in prehospital care, the emergency department, the critical care unit, and the operating room Essential new chapters cover the fundamental principles of bag-mask-ventilation, single lung ventilation using double lumen tubes, and airway management in austere environments, in addition to airway education and simulation Mnemonics, easy-to-follow algorithms, and alternative strategies (Plan A, Plan B, etc.) in every chapter reinforce pivotal concepts Chapter-ending questions offer effective self-assessment Accompanying DVD with instructive video visually explains common procedures in a learn-as-you-go style