Long recognized as the gold standard emergency airway management textbook, The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Sixth Edition, remains the most trusted reference on this challenging topic. This practical reference, edited by Drs. Calvin A. Brown III, John C. Sakles, Nathan W. Mick, Jarrod M. Mosier, and Darren A. Braude, is the foundation text for these nationally recognized programs: The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency™, The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care™, The Difficult Airway Course: EMS™, and The Difficult Airway Course: Residency Edition™. Its hands-on approach provides the concrete guidance you need to effectively respond wherever adult or pediatric airway emergencies may occur, including in and out of hospital settings, emergency departments, and urgent care centers.
Includes new chapters on Physiologically Difficult Airway; Human Factors in Emergency Airway Management; Intubating the Highly Infectious Patient (including COVID-19 considerations); and the Massively Soiled Airway
Emphasizes practicality with step-by-step instructions, mnemonics, easy-to-follow algorithms, and rich illustrations
Respected contributors from previous editions, Dr. Jarrod M. Mosier and Dr. Darren A. Braude, bring their extensive expertise in prehospital airway management (EMS) as new editors for this edition
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Author(s): Calvin A. Brown III, John C. Sakles, Nathan W. Mick, Jarrod M. Mosier, Darren A. Braude
Edition: 6
Publisher: LWW Wolters Kluwer Health
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: CONVERTED PDF
Tags: Emergency Airway Management; Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Medicine;
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
SECTION I: Principles of Airway Management
1. The Decision to Intubate
2. Identification of the Anatomically Difficult Airway
3. The Physiologically Difficult Airway
4. Identification of the Failed Airway
5. The Emergency Airway Algorithms
6. Human Factors During Emergency Airway Management
7. Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway
SECTION II: Oxygenation and Ventilation
8. Principles of Peri-intubation Oxygenation
9. Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation and High-Flow Nasal Oxygen
10. Mechanical Ventilation
11. Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Monitoring
SECTION III: Basic Airway Management
12. Bag-Mask Ventilation
13. Extraglottic Devices
14. Managing the Patient With an Extraglottic Device in Place
SECTION IV: Tracheal Intubation
15. Direct Laryngoscopy
16. Video Laryngoscopy
17. Flexible Endoscopic Intubation
18. Blind Intubation Techniques
19. Emergency Surgical Airways
SECTION V: Pharmacology and Techniques of Airway Management
20. Rapid Sequence Intubation
21. Sedative-Induction Agents
22. Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
23. Optimizing First Attempt Intubation Success
24. Anesthesia and Sedation for Awake Intubation
SECTION VI: Pediatric Airway Management
25. Differentiating Aspects of the Pediatric Airway
26. Pediatric Airway Techniques
27. The Difficult Pediatric Airway
28. Foreign Body in the Pediatric Airway
SECTION VII: EMS Airway Management
29. Introduction to EMS Airway Management
30. Techniques in Prehospital Airway Management
31. Difficult and Failed Airway Management in EMS
32. Controversies in EMS Airway Management
SECTION VIII: Special Clinical Circumstances
33. The Unstable Patient: Cardiopulmonary Optimization for Emergency Airway Management
34. The Trauma Airway
35. The Neurocritical Patient
36. Reactive Airways Disease
37. Distorted Airways and Acute Upper Airway Obstruction
38. The Pregnant Patient
39. Cardiovascular Emergencies
40. Intubating the Highly Infectious Patient
41. The Massively Soiled Airway
42. The Geriatric Patient
43. The Morbidly Obese Patient
44. Foreign Body in the Adult Airway
45. Safe Extubation in the Emergency Airway Patient
Index
