Emergency Airway Management

Jonathan Benger is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the United Bristol Healthcare Trust, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Jerry Nolan is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK. Mike Clancy is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Southampton University Hospitals Trust, UK.

List of contributors; Foreword; Glossary; 1. Introduction and overview Mike Clancy, Jerry Nolan and Jonathan Benger; 2. Delivery of oxygen Carl Gwinnutt; 3. Airway assessment Dominic Williamson and Jerry Nolan; 4. Basic airway management techniques Stephen Bush and David Ray; 5. Indications for intubation Tim Parke, Dermot McKeown and Colin Graham; 6. Preparation for rapid sequence induction Nikki Maran, Neil Nichol and Simon Leigh-Smith; 7. Rapid sequence induction and tracheal intubation Neil Nichol, Nikki Maran and Simon Leigh-Smith; 8. Pharmacology of emergency airway drugs Neil Nichol, Nikki Maran and Jonathan Benger; 9. Difficult and failed airway Dermot McKeown, Tim Parke and David Lockey; 10. Post-intubation management and preparation for transfer Paul Younge, David Lockey and Alasdair Gray; 11. Emergency airway management in special circumstances Patricia Weir, Paul Younge, Andy Eynon, Patrick Nee, Alasdair Gray, Dermot McKeown, Neil Robinson, Carl Gwinnutt, David Lockey and Jonathan Benger; 12. Non-invasive ventilatory support Alasdair Gray, Jerry Nolan and Carl Gwinnutt; 13. The interface between departments and hospitals Jerry Nolan, Mike Clancy and Jonathan Benger; 14. Audit and skills maintenance Colin Graham; Appendix: Emergency airway algorithms.