Summary Cases in Emergency Airway Management

Cases in Emergency Airway Management Contents List of contributors vii Preface xi 1. Anatomic consideration for airway management 1 Gail I. Randel and Tracey Straker 2. Airway algorithms and guidelines 10 Carlos A. Artime and Carin A. Hagberg 3. A general approach to evaluation and management of the emergency airway 19 Adam Schiavi and Christina Miller 4. Management of patients with angioedema 28 Wendy H. L. Teoh and Michael Seltz Kristensen 5. Stridor due to upper airway obstruction/mass 34 Sage P. Whitmore 6. Tracheostomy-related airway emergencies 42 Vinciya Pandian, Mueen Ahmad, and Nasir Bhatti 7. Subglottic airway emergencies 48 Seth Manoach and Oren A. Friedman 8. Airway management in patients with tracheobronchial traumatic injury 56 Felipe Urdaneta 9. Airway management of the patient with morbid obesity 63 Davide Cattano and Ruggero M. Corso 10. Adult and pediatric epiglottitis 71 Calvin A. Brown III 11. Management of foreign body aspiration in pediatric and adult patients 79 Neal Patrick Moehrle and Narasimhan Jagannathan 12. Management of anterior mediastinal mass 89 Basem Abdelmalak 13. The asthmatic crisis 94 Sal J. Suau and Peter M. C. DeBlieux 14. Airway management of the pregnant patient 104 Mohammed A. Abdel-Rahim, Lori Ann Suffredini, and Jean-Pierre P. Ouanes 15. Management of patients with laryngospasm 112 Kenneth H. Butler 16. Airway compression by expanding hematoma 119 Michael Seltz Kristensen and Wendy H. L. Teoh 17. Extubation of the difficult airway 126 Richard M. Cooper 18. Management of blunt and penetrating neck trauma 134 Erik G. Laurin