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The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management
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DescriptionManage airway emergencies with confidence!
The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management is the world’s most trusted reference on emergency airway management, and is the foundation text in the nationally recognized The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency™, The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care™, and The Difficult Airway Course: EMS™. Its practical, hands-on approach provides all the concrete guidance you need to effectively respond to any airway emergency, whether in the emergency department, ICU, urgent care setting, pre-hospital environment, or anywhere else airway emergencies may occur.- Apply the latest evidence-based approaches to all aspects of airway management.New chapters include Managing Retroglottic Devices, Controversies in EMS Airway Management, The Unstable Patient: Optimization for Emergency Airway Management, and Safe Extubation of the At-Risk Emergency Patient. Discover expanded coverage of preoxygenation techniques and comprehensive updates throughout.
- Efficiently overcome any challenge in airway management with the aid of step-by-step instructions, mnemonics, easy-to-follow algorithms, and rich illustrations.
- Glean expert insights from a brand-new editorial team led by Calvin Brown III, MD, who is Dr. Walls’ colleague and protégé, and many of the same airway experts who teach The Difficult Airway Course™ - additionally, Dr. Ron Walls continues to actively author content within this edition!
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SpecsEdition5ISBN/ISSN9781496351968Product FormatPB-PaperbackTrim Size7 x 10Pages512Illustration340Table60Publication DateJune 20, 2017Weight2.10
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About The Author(s)
- Calvin A Brown MD
- Calvin A. Brown III, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Faculty Affairs
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
- John C Sakles
- John C. Sakles, MD
Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, Arizona
- Nathan W. Mick MD
- Nathan W. Mick, MD
Associate Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine
Associate Chief
Department of Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine
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Table of contentsSECTION I. Principles of Airway Management
1.The Decision to Intubate
2.Identification of the Difficult and Failed Airway
3.The Emergency Airway Algorithms
4.Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway
Section II. Oxygen Delivery
5.Principles of Preparatory Oxygenation
6.Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation
7.Mechanical Ventilation
8.Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Monitoring
Section III. Basic Airway Management
9.Bag-Mask Ventilation
10.Extraglottic Devices: Supraglottic Type
11.Retroglottic Devices
Section IV. Tracheal Intubation
12.Managing the Patient with an Extraglottic Device in Place
13.Direct Laryngoscopy
14.Video Laryngoscopy
15.Optical and Light-Guided Devices
16.Flexible Endoscopic Intubation
17.Fiberoptic and Video Intubating Stylets
18.Blind Intubation Techniques
Section V. Pharmacology and Techniques of Airway Management
19.Surgical Airway Management
20.Rapid Sequence Intubation
21.Sedative Induction Agents
22.Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
23.Anesthesia and Sedation for Awake Intubation
Section VI. Pediatric Airway Management
24.Differentiating Aspects of the Pediatric Airway
25.Pediatric Airway Techniques
26.The Difficult Pediatric Airway
27.Foreign Body in the Pediatric Airway
Section Vii. EMS Airway Management
28.Introduction to EMS Airway Management
29.Techniques in EMS Airway Management
30.Difficult and Failed Airway Management in EMS
Section VIII. Special Clinical Circumstances
31.Controversies in EMS Airway Management
32.The Unstable Patient: Cardiopulmonary Optimization for Emergency Airway Management
33.The Trauma Patient
34.Elevated ICP and HTN Emergencies
35.Reactive Airways Disease
36.Distorted Airways and Acute Upper Airway Obstruction
37.The Pregnant Patient
38.The Patient with Prolonged Seizure Activity
39.The Geriatric Patient
40.The Morbidly Obese Patient
41.Foreign Body in the Adult Airway
42.Safe Extubation of the Emergency Patient
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Editorial Reviews"great all-in-one resource for airway management and intubation in the emergency department.
"well referenced and clinically focused."
"great cover-to-cover resource for emergency medicine residents, and is equally effective for spot reviewing specific topics."
"has information pertinent for anyone managing patients with a difficult airway both prehospital and in the wards."
"The fifth edition makes some important evidence-based changes which include the management of hemodynamically unstable patients."
"written with the clinician in mind and the authors are clearly familiar with the complications and challenges that can arise in the hectic environment of the emergency department."
"The lead editors are prominent emergency physician researchers and practitioners, and they draw from a deep pool of expert contributors from academic emergency departments across the U.S. for each topic."
"The editors do a good job collaborating with various expert authors to provide a comprehensive manual."
"Each topic has a brief overview followed by instructions on how to perform the clinical interventions using pictures, charts, and illustrations as guides. There is a clear preference for evidence-based procedures, and each chapter contains references at the end."
Doody's Star Rating®: 4 stars Score: 90
-Doodys Publishers' Club, Friday, June 23, 2017 -
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