Includes bibliographical references and index.

Functional Anatomy of the Airway -- Airway Imaging : Principles and Practical Guide -- Ultrasonography in Airway Management -- Physics and Modeling of the Airway -- Physiology of the Airway -- Airway Pharmacology -- Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Responses to Intubation -- Definition and Incidence of the Difficult Airway -- Evaluation and Recognition of the Difficult Airway -- The ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm : Analysis and Presentation of a New Algorithm -- Preparation of the Patient for Awake Intubation -- Aspiration Prevention and Prophylaxis : Preoperative Considerations -- Preoxygenation -- Oxygen Delivery Systems, Inhalation Therapy, and Respiratory Therapy -- Nonintubation Management of the Airway : Airway Maneuvers and Mask Ventilation -- Indications for Endotracheal Intubation -- Laryngoscopic Orotracheal and Nasotracheal Intubation -- Blind Digital Intubation -- Fiberoptic and Flexible Endoscopic-Aided Techniques -- Retrograde Intubation Techniques -- Intubating Introducers, Stylets, and Lighted Stylets (Lightwands) -- Laryngeal Mask Airway -- Non-Laryngeal Mask Airway Supraglottic Airway Devices -- Upper Airway Retraction : New and Old Laryngoscope Blades -- Video Laryngoscopes -- Separation of the Two Lungs : Double-Lumen Tubes, Endobronchial Blockers, and Endobronchial Single-Lumen Tubes

Esophageal-Tracheal Double-Lumen Airways : The Combitube and EasyTube -- Percutaneous Translaryngeal Jet Ventilation -- Performance of Rigid Bronchoscopy -- Percutaneous Dilational Cricothyrotomy and Tracheostomy -- Surgical Airway -- Confirmation of Endotracheal Intubation -- Prehospital Airway Management -- Disaster Preparedness, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, and Airway Management -- The Patient with a Full Stomach -- The Difficult Pediatric Airway -- The Difficult Airway in Obstetric Anesthesia -- Anesthetic and Airway Management of Microlaryngeal Surgery and Upper Airway Endoscopy -- Anesthetic and Airway Management of Microlaryngeal Surgery and Upper Airway Endoscopy -- The Difficult Airway in Conventional Head and Neck Surgery -- Anesthesia for Laser Airway Surgery -- The Traumatized Airway -- The Difficult Airway in Neurosurgery -- Obesity, Sleep Apnea, the Airway, and Anesthesia -- Airway Management in Burn Patients -- Regional Anesthesia and the Difficult Airway -- Airway Management in Intensive Care Medicine -- Endotracheal Tube and Respiratory Care -- Mechanical Ventilation -- Monitoring the Airway and Pulmonary Function -- Extubation and Reintubation of the Difficult Airway -- Complications of Managing the Airway -- Teaching Airway Management Outside the Operating Room -- Airway Management Instruction in the Operating Room -- Effective Dissemination of Critical Airway Information : The MedicAlert Foundation National Difficult Airway/Intubation Registry -- Medical-Legal Considerations : The ASA Closed Claims Project.

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