Airway Management in Emergencies

For acute care clinicians, Kovacs and Law (emergency medicine and anesthesiology and surgery, Dalhousie U., Canada) bring together a group of emergency medicine and anesthesiology specialists mostly from Canada for this 23-chapter textbook, which is based partly on the educational material used in the Airway Interventions and Management in Emergencies program for emergency physicians in Canada. This edition has new and expanded color figures, including original art work, fluoroscopy, and AirwayCam images; new and revised algorithms on the approach to tracheal intubation, the difficult airway, penetrating neck trauma, prehospital care, and others; inclusion of new devices and emerging practice, including improvements to extraglottic devices and new pharmacology; new chapters on trauma, infant and prehospital airway management, and airway implications of coexisting disease; expanded use of clinical cases; expanded sections on when and how to do an awake intubation, and how to handle upper and lower airway pathology or the morbidly obese patient; and an expanded chapter on the interrelationship between human performance and patient safety and how to optimize both in caring for patients requiring acute airway management. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)