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Difficult airway management /

Management of a patient with a difficult airway has undergone significant changes in recent years, with the introduction of both new guidelines and equipment. Chapters cover basic topics such as recognition of a difficult airway and general principles of management and then move onto more complicate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Popat, Mansukh T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Colección:Oxford anaesthesia library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Difficult airway: definitions, incidence and consequences; 2 Difficult airway management: general principles; 3 Basic anatomical, physiological and pharmacological principles of difficult airway management; 4 Preoperative airway assessment; 5 Management of the anticipated difficult airway: without clinical upper airway obstruction; 6 Management of the anticipated difficult airway: the patient with critical upper airway obstruction; 7 Awake fibreoptic intubation.
  • 8 Management of the unanticipated difficult airway: the 'can't intubate, can ventilate' scenario9 Unanticipated difficult intubation: 'can't intubate, can't ventilate' (CICV) scenario; 10 Difficult airway in special situations; 11 Management of paediatric difficult airway; 12 Extubation and re-intubation strategy; 13 New airway devices for difficult airway management; 14 Airway training; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X.