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Difficult Airway Management : Case Studies / Ambreen Yasin [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yasin, Ambreen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Respiratory organs--Diseases.
- Respiratory organs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Shrewsbury, England : TFM Publishing Limited, [2023]
- Summary:
- This book consists of real-life clinical scenarios, describing how patients with difficult airways were managed and how their management could have been improved. Using a combination of up-to-date knowledge, advanced technology and clinical expertise, this book provides an invaluable resource for any specialist managing airways in a clinical environment.
- Contents:
- DIFFICULT AIRWAY MANAGEMENT
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Case scenario 1
- Introduction
- Past medical history
- Clinical examination
- Investigations
- How this case was managed
- How would you manage this case differently?
- Difficult mask ventilation
- Principles of airway management
- Airway assessment
- Special investigations
- Formulation of an airway management strategy
- Performance of the procedure
- Unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation
- Extubation and follow-up
- References
- Case scenario 2
- The initial management of this patient
- What potential aetiologies could cause bleeding in the airway?
- How could blood within the upper airway make your management more difficult?
- Management strategy for a patient with a bleeding airway
- Case scenario 3
- Case scenario 4
- Case scenario 5
- Past history
- Practical tips for successful fibreoptic intubation via a supraglottic airway device
- Case scenario 6
- References.
- Case scenario 7
- Case scenario 8
- Mackenzie technique of airway topicalisation
- Case scenario 9
- Causes of potential difficult airways in patients with oral cancers
- Case scenario 10
- Nasal versus oral tracheal tube in critical care
- Awake fibreoptic intubation
- Case scenario 11
- Methods to optimise intubation during awake fibreoptic intubation via the oral route
- Case scenario 12
- Preoperative management
- What are the potential causes of low tidal volumes?
- How would you troubleshoot a low tidal volume alarm to diagnose the cause?
- Case scenario 13
- Case scenario 14
- Clinical examination.
- Investigations
- Airway exchange catheter
- Front-of-neck access (FONA)
- What potential difficulties may be encountered while performing front-of-neck access?
- Case scenario 15
- Case scenario 16
- Case scenario 17
- Case scenario 18
- Tracheostomy bleeding
- Case scenario 19
- What are the possible causes?
- Extubation planning
- Case scenario 20
- Why can extubation be dangerous?
- Case scenario 21
- What potential complications are there with awake tracheal intubations (ATI)?
- Case scenario 22
- Why do serious airway complications occur?
- What factors may cause someone to change their initial airway management plan?
- Case scenario 23
- What would be your concerns with this case?
- How would you approach difficult neonatal intubation?
- How would you manage the team dynamics through this scenario?
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-913755-39-8
- 1-913755-37-1
- OCLC:
- 1402030408
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