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Competent airway management is a vital skill: inability to handle the airway can lead at best to abandoning the case, and at worst to death. This book is an essential guide to airway management for trainee anaesthetists and intensivists, operating department practitioners and anaesthetic / theatre nurses. It is designed to be non-intimidating, and to cover the necessary essentials in such a way as to be easily accessible and readily understood by the new trainee or busy nurse without the time to look through large textbooks. needs to search in lots of different books. Emphasis is given to the basics of airway assessment, how to handel vital emergency procedures and the difficult airway - all situations which will be familiar in any hospital. More advanced topics, such as fibreoptic intubation, are also covered, to give an insight into how they can add to more routine techniques.

INDICE: 1. Airway assessment; 2. Anatomy; 3. Routine intubation; 4. Abdominal surgery; 5. Trauma and burns; 6. The paediatric airway; 7. Airway management without intubation; 8. Airway management in obstetrics; 9. Surgery in the prone position; 10. Head and neck, maxillo-facial surgery, ENT and neurosurgery; 11. The difficult airway; 12. Extubation and post-operative airway management.