Advanced Airway Management [Paperback]

Charles E. Stewart (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0130881910 | ISBN-13: 978-0130881915 | Publication Date: March 10, 2002 | Edition: 1

For courses in Paramedic, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Airway Management. Providing an extensive amount of practical information in an easy-to-read format, this is the complete text on emergency airway management. Written for all providers of emergency services, it covers the broad spectrum of airway management--from basic techniques through advanced procedures.

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Emergency Airway Management The only text to cover the broad spectrum of airway management techniques.
The only text written for all emergency services fields.

Providing an extensive amount of practical information in an easy-to-read format, Charles E. Stewart's Emergency Airway Management is the complete text on emergency airway management. Written for the provider by a provider, it covers the broad spectrum of airway management techniques - from basic to high level skills. Written for all emergency services providers, it contains all of the essential information needed, whether you're an anesthesiologist, emergency physician or a pre-hospital emergency professional. Features include:

• Progressive presentation of information as found in new ACLS recommendations.
• An in-depth discussion of common and uncommon complications.
• Illustrations highlighting techniques used in basic and advanced airway skills.
• Case studies with corresponding discussions of possible solutions.
• Comprehensive, up-to-date information on airway management equipment.

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There is no more important task in emergency medicine than airway control. Whatever the method, it must be effective, for the problem airway does not allow the luxury of waiting until "the consultant" arrives or until the problem cures itself.

To illustrate how important airway control is, merely try holding your breath for one minute. Go ahead—try. Consider how uncomfortable this feels. Now consider a patient who does not have adequate ventilation or who cannot breathe. This patient may be in the acute phase of dying unless you control the situation immediately. This is exactly how important airway control is in emergency care—especially in the field.

If you are not skilled in airway control or attuned to the importance of proactive airway management, then the other fine emergency skills that you possess won't matter much: More of your patients will die from inadequate airway control than hemorrhage or trauma. At normal body temperature, irreversible brain damage begins after 4 to 6 minutes of anoxia. There are few survivable gunshot wounds or other mechanisms of trauma that will cause death in this time. When airway control is achieved early in the management of severe trauma, survival of these trauma victims is improved.

Appropriate control of the airway is the single most important skill that you will ever possess in the management of the acutely ill and injured patient. Indeed, this is the single most important task of the emergency physician, emergency nurse, emergency physician's assistant, emergency medical technician, or paramedic and first responder.

Although the need for better airway control is critical, the means to accomplish this task is anything but clear. The ideal airway maintenance technique would be simple to use, adaptable to every patient, protect the airway from aspiration, and easily provide adequate ventilation. However, this technique does not yet exist!

Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (March 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130881910
• ISBN-13: 978-0130881915
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,936,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best -, October 20, 2003

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Gary Ludwig (Hillsboro, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Airway Management (Paperback)

This is one the best texts I have ever seen concerning the principle applications of airway management. As a paramedic for 26 years with extensive street experience, I still found techniques to enhance my skill level beneficial in this text. Additionally, the latest techniques, pharmaceutical methodologies, and current theory were also useful to me. I have used this book as an expert witness during court testimony to validate procedures. A must for the novice or the experienced.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Advanced Airway Management not so advanced..., December 31, 2002

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Tobias Knight-meigs "tobymeigs" (Eugene, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Airway Management (Paperback)

I am an experienced Emergency Room RN, Paramedic, & 2nd year Resp.Therapy student & here is my opinion of this text:
This is a good book if you are new to the field of airway management as a healthcare practitioner,(e.g,EMS,Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine.) However, if you are experienced in this field, it is my opinion that you will find the text lacking. This book does not break any new ground in management of the difficult airway. There is a lot of review of BLS airway maneuvers, basic oxygen delivery devices & alternative airways;(e.g,the Combitube,LMA,Surgical Airways, etc,.),RSI & the techniques of orotracheal & nasotracheal intubation.
In addition, there were some glaring contradictions which I found vexing. For example, on pg. 139 of the text,in discussion of the cricothyrotomy, the author(s) state "Don't use the sometimes recommended 3cc syringe barrel into which a connector from a 7mm ETT is placed, it's just plain awkward." The illustration above this statement,(Figure 8-10) illustrates said technique. So which is it?
If you are looking for the definitive text on Management of the
Difficult Airway, I suggest that you continue your search.