This full-color atlas is a step-by-step pictorial guide to both routine and advanced airway management techniques.

More than 300 photographs depict the tools involved; the placement of the tools in relation to anatomy in cadaver specimens; and the devices in use in various clinical scenarios. Succinct text summarizes the steps of each technique, the evidence supporting the technique, and the indications, contraindications, complications, practicality, and cost.

Major sections demonstrate techniques for endotracheal intubation when direct laryngoscopy is difficult. These include adjuncts to direct laryngoscopy, blind intubation, light-guided intubation, retrograde intubation, fiberoptic techniques, emergency ventilation, combination techniques, and emergency surgical airways.

Contents

Part I: Routine Airway Management

1. Airway Anatomy
2. Mask Ventilation
3. Direct Laryngoscopy
4. The Pediatric Airway
5. Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Placement
6. Retraction Blades for Direct Laryngoscopy
7. Pharmacology of Airway Management

Part II: Difficult Airway Management: Recognition, Training, and Management

8. Definition, Incidence, and Predictors of the Difficult Airway
9. Decision Making in Difficult Airway Management
10. Training in Airway Management
11. Examples and Illustrations of Conditions Predisposing to Difficult Airway Management

Part III: Adjuncts to Direct Laryngoscopy

12. Mirrors and Mirror Blades
13. Prisms and Prism Blades
14. Bougies and Airway Stylets

Part IV: Blind Intubation

15. Blind Nasotracheal Intubation
16. Blind Orotracheal Intubation

Part V: Lightwands and Optical Stylets

17. Lightwands
18. Optical Stylets

Part VI: Retrograde Techniques

19. Retrograde Intubation

Part VII: Fiberoptic Techniques

20. Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscopes
21. Rigid Fiberoptic Scopes

Part VIII: Emergency Ventilation

22. Esophageal-Tracheal Combitube
23. Laryngeal Mask Airway
24. Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway
25. New Supraglottic Ventilation Devices
26. Transtracheal "Jet" Ventilation

Part IX: Combination Techniques

27. Intubation through Laryngeal Mask Airway or Intubation Laryngeal Mask Airway with a Bougie, Lighted Stylet, or Optical Stylet
28. Retrograde Intubation and Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation
29. Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation through the Laryngeal Mask Airway
30. Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation through the Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway
31. Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation and the Esophageal-tracheal Combitube
32. Transtracheal Jet Ventilation and Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation

Part X: Emergency Surgical Airways

33. Cricothyrotomy
34. Wire-Guided Cricothyrotomy

Index

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