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This is a definitive, technically detailed, decision-aiding clinical textbook on airway management in the critically ill relevant to anesthesia, critical care and emergency medicine, and medical and surgical critical care practitioners. It provides a structured framework for properly assessing the airway management needs of needs of the critically ill patient by stressing proper assessment of the difficult as well as the routine airway, providing a successful strategy for pharmacologic intervention, using alternative techniques such as adjunct and surgical airway maneuvers, and evaluating long-term risks and complications of the procedures. Dr. Vukmir's preface says: Laryngoscopy and intubation have been described by Flagg as the pivot point upon which turns the moment to prevent asphyxial death. There is perhaps no area in medicine more crucial in the need to arrive at the proper endpoint than adequate airway management and control in the critically ill patient. Perhaps more important than the process of intubation itself is the decision-making employed to arrive at the proper strategy for airway management. The book's five chapters comprehensively cover the endotracheal intubation procedure and pharmacology, difficult tracheal intubation, confirmation of endotracheal tube placement, laryngotracheal injury from prolonged intubation, and approaches, procedures, complications, and outcomes of cricothyroidectomy and translaryngeal tracheostomy. Includes bibliographic references and index.

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a comprehensive review of the acquisition and maintenance of an airway for mechanical ventilationa well-referenced text providing useful information for those responsible for airway intubation. - Dona J. Upson, MD, FCCP, CHEST, April 2003 Promo Copy

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