Clinical Management of the Airway

Part 1 Introduction: functional anatomy of the airway; airway pathology. Part 2 Evaluating the airway: radiology of the upper airway; pulmonary function tests to evaluate the airway; bedside evaluation of the paediatric airway; rigid and flexible bronchoscopy; acoustic response measurements of the airway; airway sound transmission analysis. Part 3 Securing the airway: managing the airway outside of the operating room; cricothyrotomy and tracheostomy; overview of the intubation process; endotracheal tubes; rigid laryngoscopes; pharmacologic aids; the basics of awake intubation; oral intubation techniques; the nasal approach to intubation; the prediction of a difficult intubation; the failed intubation - maximizing successful management of the patient with a compromised or potentially compromised airway; the laryngeal mask and perioperative airway management; fiberoptic laryngoscopes; the role of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in thoracic anaesthesia; teaching fiberoptic laryngoscopy and intubation; complications of endotracheal intubation; extubation following anaesthesia and surgery. Part 4 Managing specific airway problems: establishing an airway outside the hospital; management of the acute airway in the emergency department; airway considerations for ear, neck, and throat surgery; airway management in tracheal stenosis; haemoptysis, minor and massive; drug interactions and the airway; airway infections; physical factors in high-frequency ventilation; lasers and the airway; congenital airway abnormalities; critical upper airway obstruction in children; anesthetic considerations for maxillofacial trauma; inhalational injury - management of the burned airway; the airway in the obstetric patients; airway management in the cardiac patients; airway problems in the post-anaesthesia care unit; modern appliances and their long-term complications.