Difficult airway management [electronic resource] / edited by Mansukh Popat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Management of a patient with a difficult airway has undergone significant changes in recent years, with the introduction of both new guidelines and equipment, and this resource covers basic topics such as recognition of a difficult airway and general principles of management, as well as more complicated topics such as the'anticipated' and'unanticipated' difficult airway scenarios. New equipment is outlined and reviewed, and a chapter focuses on extubation and its importance. It also includes a chapter on management in common clinical settings and a separate chapter covers paediatric airway management.

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