Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Anatomy
- 2 Physiology of apnoea and hypoxia
- 3 Physics and physiology
- 4 Cleaning and disinfection of airway equipment
- 5 General principles
- 6 Maintenance of the airway during anaesthesia: supra-glottic devices
- 7 Tracheal tubes
- 8 Tracheal intubation of the adult patient
- 9 Confirmation of tracheal intubation
- 10 Extubation
- 11 Light-guided intubation: the trachlight
- 12 Fibreoptic intubation
- 13 Retrograde intubation
- 14 Endobronchial and double-lumen tubes, bronchial blockers
- 15 ‘Difficult airways’: causation and prediction
- 16 The paediatric airway
- 17 Obstructive sleep apnoea and anaesthesia
- 18 The airway in cervical trauma
- 19 The airway in cervical spine disease and surgery
- 20 The aspiration problem
- 21 The lost airway
- 22 Trauma to the airway
- 23 Airway mortality associated with anaesthesia and medico-legal aspects
- 24 ENT and maxillofacial surgery
- 25 Airway management in the ICU
- 26 The airway in obstetrics
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Anatomy
- 2 Physiology of apnoea and hypoxia
- 3 Physics and physiology
- 4 Cleaning and disinfection of airway equipment
- 5 General principles
- 6 Maintenance of the airway during anaesthesia: supra-glottic devices
- 7 Tracheal tubes
- 8 Tracheal intubation of the adult patient
- 9 Confirmation of tracheal intubation
- 10 Extubation
- 11 Light-guided intubation: the trachlight
- 12 Fibreoptic intubation
- 13 Retrograde intubation
- 14 Endobronchial and double-lumen tubes, bronchial blockers
- 15 ‘Difficult airways’: causation and prediction
- 16 The paediatric airway
- 17 Obstructive sleep apnoea and anaesthesia
- 18 The airway in cervical trauma
- 19 The airway in cervical spine disease and surgery
- 20 The aspiration problem
- 21 The lost airway
- 22 Trauma to the airway
- 23 Airway mortality associated with anaesthesia and medico-legal aspects
- 24 ENT and maxillofacial surgery
- 25 Airway management in the ICU
- 26 The airway in obstetrics
- Index
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- Core Topics in Airway Management , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005