Cases in Emergency Airway Management

Lauren C. Berkow is Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. John C. Sakles is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

1. Anatomic consideration for airway management Gail I. Randel and Tracey Straker; 2. Airway algorithms and guidelines Carlos A. Artime and Carin A. Hagberg; 3. A general approach to management and evaluation of the emergency airway Adam Schiavi and Christina Miller; 4. Management of patients with angioedema Wendy H. L. Teoh and Michael Seltz Kristensen; 5. Stridor due to upper airway obstruction/mass Sage P. Whitmore; 6. Tracheostomy-related airway emergencies Vinciya Pandian, Mueen Ahmad and Nasir Bhatti; 7. Subglottic airway emergencies Seth Manoach and Oren A. Friedman; 8. Airway management in patients with tracheo-bronchial traumatic injury Felipe Urdaneta; 9. Airway management of the patient with morbid obesity Davide Cattano and Ruggero M. Corso; 10. Adult and pediatric epiglottitis Calvin A. Brown, III; 11. Management of foreign body aspiration in pediatric and adult patients Neal Patrick Moehrle and Narasimhan Jagannathan; 12. Management of anterior mediastinal mass Basem Abdelmalak; 13. The asthmatic crisis Sal J. Suau and Peter M. C. DeBlieux; 14. Airway management of the pregnant patient Mohammed A. Abdel-Rahim, Lori Ann Wilkinson Suffredini and Jean-Pierre P. Ouanes; 15. Management of patients with laryngospasm Kenneth H. Butler; 16. Airway compression by expanding hematoma Michael Seltz Kristensen and Wendy H. L. Teoh; 17. Extubation of the difficult airway Richard M. Cooper; 18. Management of blunt and penetrating neck trauma Erik G. Laurin; 19. Airway management of patients with smoke inhalation Jarrod M. Mosier; 20. Airway management in cervical spine injury Jaime Daly and Keith J. Ruskin; 21. Airway management in facial trauma Rob Reardon and Marc Martel; 22. Airway management in head injury Christa San Luis and Athir Morad; 23. Airway management of pediatric congenital anomalies Paul Baker and Natasha Woodman; 24. Management of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage Nick Dalesio; 25. Fiberoptic intubation William Rosenblatt and P. Allan Klock, Jr; 26. Videolaryngoscopy for emergency intubation Kenneth P. Rothfield and John C. Sakles; 27. Surgical airway management Aaron E. Bair; 28. Communicating airway information: difficult airway letters and the MedicAlert National Difficult Airway/Intubation Registry Lorraine Foley, Vinciya Pandian and Lynette Mark.