This full-color atlas is a step-by-step pictorial guide to both routine and advanced airway management techniques. More than 300 photographs depict the tools involved; the placement of the tools in relation to anatomy in cadaver specimens; and the devices in use in various clinical scenarios. Succinct text summarizes the steps of each technique, the evidence supporting the technique, and the indications, contraindications, complications, practicality, and cost. Major sections demonstrate techniques for endotracheal intubation when direct laryngoscopy is difficult. These include adjuncts to direct laryngoscopy, blind intubation, light-guided intubation, retrograde intubation, fiberoptic techniques, emergency ventilation, combination techniques, and emergency surgical airways.

Table of Contents

PART I: ROUTINE AIRWAY MANAGEMENT Airway Anatomy Mask Ventilation Direct Laryngoscopy The Pediatric Airway Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Placement Retraction Blades for Direct Laryngoscopy Pharmacology of Airway Management PART II: DIFFICULT AIRWAY MANAGEMENT: RECOGNITION, TRAINING, AND MANAGEMENT Definition, Incidence, and Predictors of the Difficult Airway Decision Making in Difficult Airway Management Training in Airway Management Examples and Illustrations of Conditions Predisposing to Difficult Airway Management PART III: ADJUNCTS TO DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY Mirrors and Mirror Blades Prisms and Prism Blades Bougies and Airway Stylets PART IV: BLIND INTUBATION Blind Nasotracheal Intubation Blind Orotracheal Intubation PART V: LIGHTWANDS AND OPTICAL STYLETS Lightwands Optical Stylets PART VI: RETROGRADE TECHNIQUES Retrograde Intubation PART VII: FIBEROPTIC TECHNIQUES Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscopes Rigid Fiberoptic Scopes PART VIII: EMERGENCY VENTILATION Esophageal-Tracheal Combitube Laryngeal Mask Airway Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway New Supraglottic Ventilation Devices Transtracheal "Jet" Ventilation PART IX: COMBINATION TECHNIQUES Intubation through Laryngeal Mask Airway or Intubation Laryngeal Mask Airway with a Bougie, Lighted Stylet, or Optical Stylet Retrograde Intubation and Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation through the Laryngeal Mask Airway Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation through the Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation and the Esophageal-tracheal Combitube Transtracheal Jet Ventilation and Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Intubation PART X: EMERGENCY SURGICAL AIRWAYS Cricothyrotomy Wire-Guided Cricothyrotomy