Evaluation of the Airway
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…
ANESTHESIA
Tracheotomy
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…
Bag-Mask-Ventilation
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
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…
Context-Sensitive Airway Management
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…
Aspiration: Risks and Prevention
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
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…
Pharmacology of Drugs Used in Airway Management
PHYSIOLOGY OF TRACHEAL INTUBATION Print Section Listen What Are the Physiological Responses to Tracheal Intubation? The goal of tracheal intubation is to provide a successful and definitive airway. Unfortunately, laryngoscopy…
Human Factors and Airway Management
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A lady in her thirties presented for endoscopic sinus surgery and septoplasty. Preoperative assessment found only a congenitally fused neck vertebra and use of nasal…
Confidence Intervals
Confidence Intervals: Introduction Print Section Listen All the statistical procedures developed so far were designed to help decide whether or not a set of observations is compatible with some hypothesis….
