Research Catalog

Title

Manual of emergency airway management / editor-in chief, Ron M. Walls ; contributing editors, Robert C. Luten, Michael F. Murphy, Robert E. Schneider.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2000], ©2000.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Walls, Ron M.

Description

xiii, 240 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Intubation, Intratracheal
• Emergency Treatment
• Handbook
• Airway Obstruction > therapy

Genre/Form

Handbook.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Decision to Intubate / Ron M. Walls -- 2. Rapid Sequence Intubation / Ron M. Walls -- 3. The Emergency Airway Algorithms / Ron M. Walls -- 4. Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Placement / Ron M. Walls -- 5. The Difficult and Failed Airway / Michael F. Murphy and Ron M. Walls -- 6. Basic Airway Management / Robert E. Schneider -- 7. RSI Using Competitive (Non-depolarizing) Neuromuscular Blocking Agents / John C. Sakles and Ron M. Walls -- 8. Awake Intubation Techniques / Ron M. Walls and Robert C. Luten -- 9. Special Devices and Techniques for Managing the Difficult or Failed Airway / Michael F. Murphy -- 10. Fiberoptic Intubation Techniques / Michael F. Murphy -- 11. Surgical Airway Techniques / Ron M. Walls and Robert J. Vissers -- 12. Pediatric Airway Techniques / Robert C. Luten -- 13. The Difficult Airway in Pediatrics / Robert C. Luten -- 14. Muscle Relaxants / Robert E. Schneider -- 15. Sedatives and Induction Agents / Robert E. Schneider --
• 16. Drugs for Special Clinical Circumstances / Robert E. Schneider -- 17. The Pediatric Patient / Robert C. Luten -- 18. The Trauma Patient / Michael A. Gibbs -- 19. Increased Intracranial Pressure / Ron M. Walls and Michael F. Murphy -- 20. Asthma and COPD / Robert E. Schneider -- 21. The Distorted Airway and Upper Airway Obstruction / Michael F. Murphy -- 22. The Critically Ill Patient / Michael F. Murphy -- 23. The Pregnant Patient / Michael F. Murphy -- 24. Prolonged Seizure Activity / Robert J. Vissers -- 25. The Geriatric Patient / Diane M. Birnbaumer -- 26. Foreign Body in the Adult Airway / Ron M. Walls -- 27. Airway Management in the Prehospital Setting / Ron M. Walls -- 28. Noninvasive Ventilatory Support in the Emergency Department / Charles V. Pollack, Jr. -- 29. Mechanical Ventilation / Michael F. Murphy and Gregory W. Murphy -- 30. Monitoring the Emergency Airway Patient / Michael F. Murphy -- App. The Difficult Airway Cart / Robert J. Vissers.

ISBN

0781726166

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries