The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management Ed.5

SECTION I. Principles of Airway Management
1.The Decision to Intubate
2.Identification of the Difficult and Failed Airway
3.The Emergency Airway Algorithms
4.Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway

Section II. Oxygen Delivery
5.Principles of Preparatory Oxygenation
6.Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation
7.Mechanical Ventilation
8.Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Monitoring

Section III. Basic Airway Management
9.Bag-Mask Ventilation
10.Extraglottic Devices: Supraglottic Type
11.Retroglottic Devices

Section IV. Tracheal Intubation
12.Managing the Patient with an Extraglottic Device in Place
13.Direct Laryngoscopy
14.Video Laryngoscopy
15.Optical and Light-Guided Devices
16.Flexible Endoscopic Intubation
17.Fiberoptic and Video Intubating Stylets
18.Blind Intubation Techniques

Section V. Pharmacology and Techniques of Airway Management
19.Surgical Airway Management
20.Rapid Sequence Intubation
21.Sedative Induction Agents
22.Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
23.Anesthesia and Sedation for Awake Intubation

Section VI. Pediatric Airway Management
24.Differentiating Aspects of the Pediatric Airway
25.Pediatric Airway Techniques
26.The Difficult Pediatric Airway
27.Foreign Body in the Pediatric Airway

Section Vii. EMS Airway Management
28.Introduction to EMS Airway Management
29.Techniques in EMS Airway Management
30.Difficult and Failed Airway Management in EMS

Section VIII. Special Clinical Circumstances
31.Controversies in EMS Airway Management
32.The Unstable Patient: Cardiopulmonary Optimization for Emergency Airway Management
33.The Trauma Patient
34.Elevated ICP and HTN Emergencies
35.Reactive Airways Disease
36.Distorted Airways and Acute Upper Airway Obstruction
37.The Pregnant Patient
38.The Patient with Prolonged Seizure Activity
39.The Geriatric Patient
40.The Morbidly Obese Patient
41.Foreign Body in the Adult Airway
42.Safe Extubation of the Emergency Patient