Enhance your airway management skills and overcome clinical challenges with Benumof and Hagberg's Airway Management, 3rd Edition. Trusted by anesthesiologists, residents, and nurse anesthetists, this one-of-a-kind anesthesiology reference offers expert, full-color guidance on pre- and post-intubation techniques and protocols, from equipment selection through management of complications.

1 Functional Anatomy of the Airway



2 Airway Imaging: Principles and Practical Guide



3 Ultrasonography in Airway Management



4 Physics and Modeling of the Airway



5 Physiology of the Airway



6 Airway Pharmacology



7 Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Responses to Intubation



Part 2 the Difficult Airway: Definition, Recognition, and the ASA Algorithm



8 Definition and Incidence of the Difficult Airway



9 Evaluation and Recognition of the Difficult Airway



10 The ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm: Analysis and Presentation of a New Algorithm



Part 3 Preintubation-Ventilation Procedures



11 Preparation of the Patient for Awake Intubation



12 Aspiration Prevention and Prophylaxis: Preoperative Considerations



13 Preoxygen



Part 4 The Airway Techniques



14 Oxygen Delivery Systems, Inhalation Therapy, Respiratory Therapy



15 Nonintubation Management of the Airway: Airway Maneuvers and Mask Ventilation



16 Indications for Endotracheal Intubation



17 Laryngoscopic Orotracheal and Nasotracheal Intubation



18 Blind Digital Intubation



19 Fiberoptic and Flexible Endoscopic-Aided Technique



20 Retrograde Intubation Techniques



21 Intubating Introducers, Stylets, and Lighted Stylets (Lightwands)



22 Laryngeal Mask Airway



23 Non-Laryngeal Mask Airway Supraglottic Airway Devices



24 Upper Airway Retraction: New and Old Laryngoscope Blades



25 Video Laryngoscopes



26 Separation of the Two Lungs: double-Lumen Tubes, Endobronchial Blockers, and Endobronchial Single-Lumen Tubes



27 Esophageal-Tracheal Double-Lumen Airways: The Combitube and EasyTube



28 Percutaneous Translaryngeal Jet Ventilation



29 Performance of Rigid Bronchoscopy



30 Percutaneous Dilational Cricothyrotomy and Tracheostomy



31 Surgical Airway



32 Confirmation of Endotracheal Intubation



Part 5 Difficult Airway Situations



33 Prehospital Airway Management



34 Disaster Preparedness, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, and Airway Management



35 The Patient with a Full Stomach



36 The Difficult Pediatric Airway



37 The Difficult Airway in Obstetric Anesthesia



38 Anesthetic and Airway Management of Microlaryngeal Surgery and Upper Airway Endoscopy



39 The Difficult Airway in Conventional Head and Neck Surgery



40 Anesthesia for Laser Airway Surgery



41 The Traumatized Airway



42 The Difficult Airway in Neurosurgery



43 Obesity, Sleep Apnea, the Airway, and Anesthesia



44 Airway Management in Burn Patients



45 Regional Anesthesia and the Difficult Airway



46 Airway Management in Intensive Care Medicine



Part 6 Postintubation Procedures



47 Endotracheal Tube and Respiratory Care



48 Mechanical Ventilation



49 Monitoring the Airway and Pulmonary Function



50 Extubation and Reintubation of the Difficult Airway



51 Complications of Managing the Airway



Part 7 Societal Considerations



52 Teaching Airway Management Outside the Operating Room



53 Airway Management Instruction in the Operating Room



54 Effective Dissemination of Critical Airway Information: The MedicAlert Foundation National Difficult Airway/Intubation Registry



55 Medical-Legal Considerations: The ASA Closed Claims Project