Management of the Difficult Airway: A Handbook for Surgeons

Management of the Difficult Airway: A Handbook for Surgeonsis the first book designed to help surgeons with the issues they face maintaining a clear airway and preventing obstruction. It provides practical guidance not just on emergency situations, but also on complex, planned interventions where it is the surgeon who oversees the management of the airway, for example during surgery for congenital airway anomalies. Early chapters cover anatomy, imaging, indications and specific techniques; later ones cover airway situations in specific groups, for example patients requiring surgical reconstruction of the airway resulting from cancer.

Management of the Difficult Airway provides a comprehensive, timely review of the core knowledge and clinical skills necessary for successful airway management in the surgical environment.

Key Points

• Provides a ‘go-to’ skills manual for surgeons focussing on difficult airway management in surgical patients
• Covers surgical airway management issues in adult and paediatric patients
• Multidisciplinary author team combines the expertise of ENT and other surgeons, radiologists and anaesthesiologists

Jerome W Thompson MD MBA
Professor & Chair, Dept of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

Francisco O M Vieira MD
Assistant Prof of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

Both at University of Tennessee Centre for Health Sciences, Memphis, USA

Michael J Rutter MBChB FRCAS
Paediatric Otolaryngologist, Professor of Paediatrics & OHNS, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, USA