Updated with the latest expertise in clinical developments, research and medical equipment this eagerly awaited new edition of Benumof's cornerstone text provides an easy-to-use guide on airway management. Now under new editorialship and with a host of new international contributors this essential text provides case examples and analysis on all aspects of airway problems and approaches to solve difficult airway situations. A book that no anaesthetist working in critical care scenarios should be without. CONTENTS: Section I Basic Clinical Science Consideration
1. Functional Anatomy of the Airway
2. Radiology of the Airway
3. Physics and Modeling of the Airway
4. Physiology of the Airway
5. Airway Pharmacology
6. Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Responses to Intubation

Section II The Difficult Airway: Definition, Recognition, and the ASA Algorithm
7. Definition and Incidence of the Difficult Airway
8. Evaluation and Recognition of the Difficult Airway
9. The American Society of Anesthesiologists' Management of the Difficult Airway Algorithm and Explanation Analysis of the Algorithm

Section III Preintubation-Ventilation Procedures
10. Preparation of the Patient for Awake Intubation
11. Aspiration Prevention and Prophylaxis: Preoperative Considerations
12. Preoxygenation

Section IV The Airway Techniques
13. Oxygen Delivery Systems, Inhalation Therapy, Respiration Therapy
14. Nonintubation Management of the Airway: Mask Ventilation
15. Indications for Tracheal Intubation
16. Conventional (Laryngoscopic) Orotracheal and Nasotracheal Intubation (Single-Lumen Tube)
17. Blind Digital Intubation
18. Fiberoptic Endoscopy Aided Technique
19. Retrograde Intubation Technique
20. Intubating Stylets
21. Laryngeal Mask Airway
22. New Generation Supraglottic Ventilatory Devices
23. The Evolution of Upper Airway Retraction: New and Old Laryngoscope Blades
24. Separation of the Two Lungs (Double-Lumen Tubes, Bronchial Blockers, and Endobronchial Single-Lumen Tubes)
25. The Combitube: Esophageal/ Tracheal Double Lumen Airway
26. Tracheal Jet Ventilation via Percutaneous Catheter and High-Pressure Source
27. Performance of Rigid Bronchoscopy
28. Percutaneous Dilational Cricothyrotomy and Tracheostomy
29. Surgical Airway
30. Confirmation of Tracheal Intubation

Section V Difficult Airway Situations
31. Prehospital Airway Management
32. The Patient and the Full Stomach
33. The Difficult Pediatric Airway
34. The Difficult Airway in Obstetric Anesthesia
35. Anesthetic and Airway Management of Laryngoscopy and Bronchoscopy
36. The Difficult Airway in Neurosurgery
37. Anesthesia for Laser Airway Surgery
38. The Traumatized Airway
39. The Difficult Airway in Neurosurgery
40. Obesity, Sleep Apnea, the Airway and Anesthesia
41. Special Considerations of Airway Management in the Burn Patient
42. Regional Anesthesia and the Difficult Airway
43. Airway Management in the Intensive Care Unit

Section VI Postinubation Procedures
44. Endotracheal Tube and Respiratory Care
45. Mechanical Ventilation
46. Monitoring the Airway and Pulmonary Function
47. Extubation and Changing Endotracheal Tubes
48. Complications of Managing the Airway

Section VII Societal Considerations
49. Teaching Airway Management Outside the Operating Room
50. The Instruction of Airway Management in the Operating Room
51. Effective Dissemination of Critical Airway Information: The Medic Alert National Difficult Airway/ Intubation Registry
52. Medical-Legal Considerations: The ASA Closed Claims Project

INDEX