Advanced Airway Management - Softcover

Stewart, Charles E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130881910 ISBN 13: 9780130881915

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Written for emergency services providers, this handbook covers a broad range of airway management techniques, representing both basic and high-level skills. Chapters cover anatomy, airway maneuvers, airway aids, oxygenation and ventilation aids, tracheal intubation, verification of endotracheal tube placement, surgical airways, rapid sequence intubation, pediatric airway management, special situations, and case management scenarios. Case studies describe complications and possible solutions and illustrations highlight important techniques. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Emergency Airway Management The only text to cover the broad spectrum of airway management techniques.
The only text written for all emergency services fields.

Providing an extensive amount of practical information in an easy-to-read format, Charles E. Stewart's Emergency Airway Management is the complete text on emergency airway management. Written for the provider by a provider, it covers the broad spectrum of airway management techniques - from basic to high level skills. Written for all emergency services providers, it contains all of the essential information needed, whether you're an anesthesiologist, emergency physician or a pre-hospital emergency professional. Features include:

• Progressive presentation of information as found in new ACLS recommendations.
• An in-depth discussion of common and uncommon complications.
• Illustrations highlighting techniques used in basic and advanced airway skills.
• Case studies with corresponding discussions of possible solutions.
• Comprehensive, up-to-date information on airway management equipment.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

There is no more important task in emergency medicine than airway control. Whatever the method, it must be effective, for the problem airway does not allow the luxury of waiting until "the consultant" arrives or until the problem cures itself.

To illustrate how important airway control is, merely try holding your breath for one minute. Go ahead—try. Consider how uncomfortable this feels. Now consider a patient who does not have adequate ventilation or who cannot breathe. This patient may be in the acute phase of dying unless you control the situation immediately. This is exactly how important airway control is in emergency care—especially in the field.

If you are not skilled in airway control or attuned to the importance of proactive airway management, then the other fine emergency skills that you possess won't matter much: More of your patients will die from inadequate airway control than hemorrhage or trauma. At normal body temperature, irreversible brain damage begins after 4 to 6 minutes of anoxia. There are few survivable gunshot wounds or other mechanisms of trauma that will cause death in this time. When airway control is achieved early in the management of severe trauma, survival of these trauma victims is improved.

Appropriate control of the airway is the single most important skill that you will ever possess in the management of the acutely ill and injured patient. Indeed, this is the single most important task of the emergency physician, emergency nurse, emergency physician's assistant, emergency medical technician, or paramedic and first responder.

Although the need for better airway control is critical, the means to accomplish this task is anything but clear. The ideal airway maintenance technique would be simple to use, adaptable to every patient, protect the airway from aspiration, and easily provide adequate ventilation. However, this technique does not yet exist!

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130881910
• ISBN 13: 9780130881915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270