Benumof's Airway Management

Section I Basic Clinical Science Consideration 1. Functional Anatomy of the Airway 2. Radiology of the Airway 3. Physics and Modeling of the Airway 4. Physiology of the Airway 5. Airway Pharmacology 6. Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Responses to Intubation Section II The Difficult Airway: Definition, Recognition, and the ASA Algorithm 7. Definition and Incidence of the Difficult Airway 8. Evaluation and Recognition of the Difficult Airway 9. The American Society of Anesthesiologists' Management of the Difficult Airway Algorithm and Explanation-Analysis of the Algorithm Section III Preintubation-Ventilation Procedures 10. Preparation of the Patient for Awake Intubation 11. Aspiration Prevention and Prophylaxis: Preoperative Considerations 12. Preoxygenation Section IV The Airway Techniques 13. Oxygen Delivery Systems, Inhalation Therapy, Respiration Therapy 14. Nonintubation Management of the Airway: Mask Ventilation 15. Indications for Tracheal Intubation 16. Conventional (Laryngoscopic) Orotracheal and Nasotracheal Intubation (Single-Lumen Tube) 17. Blind Digital Intubation 18. Fiberoptic Endoscopy-Aided Technique 19. Retrograde Intubation Technique 20. Intubating Stylets 21. Laryngeal Mask Airway 22. New Generation Supraglottic Ventilatory Devices 23. The Evolution of Upper Airway Retraction: New and Old Laryngoscope Blades 24. Separation of the Two Lungs (Double-Lumen Tubes, Bronchial Blockers, and Endobronchial Single-Lumen Tubes) 25. The Combitube: Esophageal/ Tracheal Double Lumen Airway 26. Tracheal Jet Ventilation via Percutaneous Catheter and High-Pressure Source 27. Performance of Rigid Bronchoscopy 28. Percutaneous Dilational Cricothyrotomy and Tracheostomy 29. Surgical Airway 30. Confirmation of Tracheal Intubation Section V Difficult Airway Situations 31. Prehospital Airway Management 32. The Patient and the Full Stomach 33. The Difficult Pediatric Airway 34. The Difficult Airway in Obstetric Anesthesia 35. Anesthetic and Airway Management of Laryngoscopy and Bronchoscopy 36. The Difficult Airway in Neurosurgery 37. Anesthesia for Laser Airway Surgery 38. The Traumatized Airway 39. The Difficult Airway in Neurosurgery 40. Obesity, Sleep Apnea, the Airway and Anesthesia 41. Special Considerations of Airway Management in the Burn Patient 42. Regional Anesthesia and the Difficult Airway 43. Airway Management in the Intensive Care Unit Section VI Postinubation Procedures 44. Endotracheal Tube and Respiratory Care 45. Mechanical Ventilation 46. Monitoring the Airway and Pulmonary Function 47. Extubation and Changing Endotracheal Tubes 48. Complications of Managing the Airway Section VII Societal Considerations 49. Teaching Airway Management Outside the Operating Room 50. The Instruction of Airway Management in the Operating Room 51. Effective Dissemination of Critical Airway Information: The Medic Alert National Difficult Airway/ Intubation Registry 52. Medical-Legal Considerations: The ASA Closed Claims Project INDEX