CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 57-year-old male was admitted for laparoscopic appendectomy for acute appendicitis. He was otherwise healthy, apart from essential hypertension, for which he took hydrochlorothiazide. He…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Do We Still Need Nonvisual Intubating Techniques? For many decades, tracheal intubation under direct vision using a laryngoscope has been considered the standard technique of intubation….
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen What Is the Challenge of Difficult and Failed Airway Management? Competency with regard to airway management is fundamental to the practice of anesthesia, emergency medicine, emergency…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen “Airway management” may be defined as the application of therapeutic interventions that are intended to effect gas exchange in patients who are unable to do it…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 58-year-old male who completed radiation therapy for a large supraglottic tumor 4 months ago now presents to the Emergency Department in significant respiratory distress…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Providing effective ventilation and oxygenation using a bag mask is probably the single most important component of airway management. Bag-mask-ventilation (BMV) refers to the use of…
How to Analyze Rates and Proportions: Introduction Print Section Listen The statistical procedures developed in Chapters 2 to 4 are appropriate for analyzing the results of experiments in which the…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 14-year-old girl is scheduled to have an excision of a mandibular mass in a hospital in Kigali, Rwanda. She is otherwise healthy, takes no…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Pulmonary aspiration, an uncommon occurrence in nonemergency airway management, may lead to a spectrum of sequelae, from no discernable effects to significant morbidity and mortality. In…
How to Test for Trends: Introduction Print Section Listen The first statistical problem we posed in this book, in connection with Figure 1-2A, dealt with a drug that was thought…
