Core Topics in Airway Management
Edited by I. Calder and A. Pearce
Published by Cambridge University Press
Pages: 209. Price: £40, \#8364;65. ISBN: 1-841101-58-3
Edited by two British anaesthetists, well known in the field of airway management, this book answers the readers’ expectations concerning concise information on every aspect of routine airway management as well as the “difficult airway”.
The book consists of 26 chapters, written by 20 authors, which cover the whole field starting with anatomy, physiology and applied physics of the airways before moving on to various procedures of airway maintenance under anaesthesia (face masks, supraglottic devices, combitubes, tracheal single and double lumen tubes, intubation via fibreoptic or retrograde techniques).
The important problem of the “difficult airway” (obstruction by infection, tumour or a foreign body) is discussed as well as the “shared airway” in ENT and maxillofacial surgery. Special problems in trauma, cervical spine disease, obstetrics, paediatrics and ICK-problems are dealt with as well as extubation and post-intubation recovery.
Additional chapters deal with design and standardisation of standard and laser-proof tubes, cleaning of airway equipment and important medical legal issues. A list of abbreviations is useful as are the several up-to-date further reading recommendations at the end of each chapter.
This useful book can be recommended without reservation to a wide spectrum of medical professionals engaged in airway management problems such as anaesthetists, intensive care unit staff, pneumologists and operating department practitioners as well as theatre, recovery and respiratory therapists.
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