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Airway management in the critically ill / Rade B. Vukmir.
LIBRA RC735.R48 V85 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vukmir, Rade B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intubation, Intratracheal.
- Critical Care.
- Respiratory intensive care.
- Trachea--Intubation.
- Trachea.
- Critical care medicine.
- Airway (Medicine).
- Medical Subjects:
- Intubation, Intratracheal.
- Critical Care.
- Physical Description:
- 135 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Parthenon Publishing Group, [2001]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Endotracheal intubation: review of procedure and pharmacology 9
- Anesthesia 9
- Physiology 10
- Procedure 11
- Pharmacology 12
- Local anesthetics 12
- Intravenous anesthetics 22
- Inhalational anesthetics 23
- Muscle relaxants 23
- Clinical scenarios 32
- Chapter 2 Difficult tracheal intubation: prediction, assessment and intervention 45
- Anesthetic misadventure 46
- Conditions 47
- Assessment 49
- Management strategies 53
- Chapter 3 Confirmation of endotracheal tube placement 81
- Confirmation 81
- Monitoring 82
- Clinical trials 83
- Apparatus 84
- Chapter 4 Laryngotracheal injury from prolonged intubation 87
- Initial complications 87
- General complications 88
- Pathology 90
- Endotracheal tube complications 90
- Endotracheal tube cuff complications 93
- Endotracheal fixation 96
- Nasotracheal intubation 96
- Esophageal intubation 98
- Double-lumen endotracheal tube 98
- Assessment and intervention 99
- Timing of tracheostomy 99
- Chapter 5 Surgical airway procedures 107
- Anatomy 108
- Cricothyroidotomy 109
- Percutaneous translaryngeal ventilation 113
- Tracheostomy 116.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1842140469
- OCLC:
- 45661781
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