Emergency Airway Management

1. Introduction Andrew Burtenshaw, Jonathan Benger and Jerry Nolan; 2. Delivery of oxygen Carl Gwinnutt; 3. Basic airway management Stephen Bush and David Ray; 4. Indications for intubation Colin Graham and Dermot McKeown; 5. Airway assessment Dominic Williamson and Jerry Nolan; 6. Preparation for rapid sequence induction Simon J. A. Chapman and Les Gordon; 7. Pharmacology of emergency airway drugs Shirley Lindsay and Jonathan Benger; 8. Rapid sequence induction and tracheal intubation Jonathan Hulme and Dinendra S. Gill; 9. Difficult and failed airway Dermot McKeown and Gavin Lloyd; 10. Post-intubation management Paul Younge and John C. Berridge; 11. Emergency airway management in special circumstances: a. Paediatrics Patricia Weir and Paul Younge; b. Trauma and raised intracranial pressure Jonathan Hulme and Dinendra S. Gill; c. Cardiorespiratory Gavin Perkins; d. Non-traumatic coma and seizures Carl Gwinnutt; e. Pre-hospital care Jonathan Benger; f. The pregnant patient John Clift; 12. Non-invasive ventilatory support Dinendra S. Gill and Gavin Perkins; 13. Human factors Andrew Burtenshaw, Colin A. Graham and Kevin Fong; Appendix 1. Mnemonics; Appendix 2. Emergency airway algorithms; Appendix 3. Example intubation checklist; Appendix 4. NAP4 summary Tim Cook, Nick Woodall, Chris Frerk and Jonathan Benger; Index.