ADVANCED EMERGENCY AIRWAY MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK: A Comprehensive Clinical Reference for Emergency, Anesthesia, and Critical Care Providers - Couverture souple

Morley, George S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798160668383

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Airway emergencies remain among the most time-critical and challenging situations in medicine. The ability to rapidly assess, optimize, secure, and manage the airway can determine patient survival in emergency departments, operating rooms, intensive care units, prehospital environments, and disaster settings.

Advanced Emergency Airway Management Handbook provides a comprehensive, evidence-based reference for healthcare professionals involved in airway management and resuscitation. This practical guide combines foundational airway science with advanced clinical decision-making, procedural techniques, pharmacology, and crisis management strategies.

Designed for emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, intensivists, critical care providers, paramedics, residents, fellows, and medical trainees, this handbook offers a structured approach to both routine and complex airway scenarios.

Inside this comprehensive clinical reference, readers will learn:

Fundamentals of airway management — airway anatomy, respiratory physiology, airway assessment, and principles of safe airway intervention

Preoxygenation and patient optimization — apneic oxygenation, positioning strategies, and preparation for high-risk intubation

Advanced intubation techniques — rapid sequence intubation (RSI), direct laryngoscopy, video laryngoscopy, and supraglottic airway devices

Difficult and failed airway management — airway algorithms, awake intubation, emergency front-of-neck access, and cannot-intubate-cannot-oxygenate (CICO) situations

Airway pharmacology — induction medications, neuromuscular blockers, adjunct therapies, and special population considerations

Special population airway care — pediatric, neonatal, obstetric, trauma, obese, and critically ill patient management

Critical care airway strategies — airway management during cardiac arrest, shock, respiratory failure, and prolonged mechanical ventilation

Prehospital and austere airway management — emergency medical services, transport medicine, military, wilderness, and resource-limited environments

Airway safety and quality improvement — monitoring, capnography, ultrasound confirmation, human factors, teamwork, simulation training, and crisis resource management

The future of airway medicine — artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and innovations shaping the next generation of airway care

With a practical and clinically focused approach, this handbook emphasizes not only how to perform airway procedures, but also how to make critical decisions under pressure, prevent complications, and improve patient outcomes.

Whether preparing for emergency airway situations, advancing procedural skills, or building expertise in critical care and anesthesia, Advanced Emergency Airway Management Handbook serves as an essential resource for mastering one of the most important skills in acute medicine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798160668383
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 498
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg