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Long recognized as the gold standard emergency airway management textbook, The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Sixth Edition, remains the most trusted reference on this challenging topic. This practical reference, edited by Drs. Calvin A. Brown III, John C. Sakles, Nathan W. Mick, Jarrod M. Mosier, and Darren A. Braude, is the foundation text for these nationally recognized programs: The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency™, The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care™, The Difficult Airway Course: EMS™, and The Difficult Airway Course: Residency Edition™. Its hands-on approach provides the concrete guidance you need to respond effectively wherever adult or pediatric airway emergencies occur, including in and out of hospital settings, emergency departments, and urgent care centers.
The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Sixth Edition
- Includes new chapters on the Physiologically Difficult Airway; Human Factors in Emergency Airway Management; Intubating the Highly Infectious Patient (including COVID-19 considerations); and the Massively Soiled Airway.
- Emphasizes practicality with step-by-step instructions, mnemonics, easy-to-follow algorithms, and rich illustrations.
- Esteemed contributors from previous editions, Dr. Jarrod M. Mosier and Dr. Darren A. Braude, bring their extensive expertise in critical care and prehospital airway management, respectively, as new editors of this edition,
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The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Sixth Edition
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Section I Principles of Airway Management 1
1. The Decision to Intubate – Calvin A. Brown III 3
2. Identification of the Anatomically Difficult Airway Calvin A. Brown III 9
3. The Physiologically Difficult Airway Jarrod M. Mosier Bhupinder Natt 21
4. Identification of the Failed Airway Calvin A. Brown III 34
5 The Emergency Airway Algorithms Calvin A. Brown III 36
6. Human Factors During Emergency Airway Management Peter G. Brindley Jocelyn M. Slemko 48
7. Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway Michael F. Murphy 60
Section II Oxygenation and Ventilation 69
8. Principles of Peri-intubation Oxygenation Robert F. Reardon Brian E. Driver 71
9. Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation and High-Flow Nasal Oxygen Alan C. Heffner 85
10. Mechanical Ventilation Alan C. Heffner 89
11. Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Monitoring Robert F. Reardon Brian E. Driver 96
Section III Basic Airway Management 107
12. Bag-Mask Ventilation Robert F. Reardon Steven C. Carleton 109
13. Extraglottic Devices Erik G. Laurin Leslie V. Simon Darren A. Braude 124
14. Managing the Patient With an Extraglottic Device in Place Darren A. Braude Eli Torgeson Michael T. Steuerwald 141
Section IV Tracheal Intubation 157
15. Direct Laryngoscopy Robert F. Reardon Steven C. Carleton Leslie V. Simon 159
16. Video Laryngoscopy Brian E. Driver John C. Sakles 178
17. Flexible Endoscopic intubation Alan C. Heffner Calvin A. Brown III 192
18. Blind Intubation Techniques Michael T. Steuerwald Steven A. Godwin Darren A. Braude 200
19. Emergency Surgical Airways Michael A. Gibbs David A. Caro Robert F. Reardon 206
Section V Pharmacology and Techniques of Airway Management 225
20. Rapid Sequence Intubation Calvin A. Brown III Ron M. Walls 227
21. Sedative-induction Agents David A. Caro Katren R. Tyler 240
22. Neuromuscular Blocking Agents David A. Caro Erik G. Laurin 248
23. Optimizing First Attempt Intubation Success Brian E. Driver Robert F. Reardon 258
24. Anesthesia and Sedation for Awake intubation Steven C. Carleton Alan C. Heffner 268
Section VI Pediatric Airway Management 279
25. Differentiating Aspects of the Pediatric Airway Robert C. Luten Nathan W. Mick 281
26. Pediatric Airway Techniques Robert C. Luten Christyn F. Magill Nathan W. Mick 297
27. The Difficult Pediatric Airway Joshua Nagler Robert C. Luten 306
28. Foreign Body in the Pediatric Airway Robert C. Luten Steven Bin Christyn F. Magill 318
Section VII EMS Airway Management 325
29. Introduction to EMS Airway Management Michael J. Keller Michael T. Steuerwald Estêvao M. Lafuente 327
30. Techniques in Prehospital Airway Management Chivas Guillote Darren A. Braude 334
31. Difficult and Failed Airway Management in EMS Michael T. Steuerwald Fred Ellinger, Jr. Joseph Loehner 352
32. Controversies in EMS Airway Management Jamie Todd Lauren M. Maloney Darren A. Braude 359
Section VIII Special Clinical Circumstances 369
33. The Unstable Patient: Cardiopulmonary Optimization for Emergency Airway Management Jarrod M. Mosier Alan C. Heffner John C. Sakles 371
34. The Trauma Airway Michael G. Gonzalez Ali S. Raja 382
35. The Neurocritical Patient Stephen Bush Bret P. Nelson 391
36. Reactive Airways Disease Heather Mahoney Calvin A. Brown III 400
37. Distorted Airways and Acute Upper Airway Obstruction Erik G. Laurin Ali S. Raja 405
38. The Pregnant Patient Megan Leigh Fix Rebecca L. Kornas 410
39. Cardiovascular Emergencies Rebecca L. Kornas Stephen Bush 417
40. Intubating the Highly Infectious Patient Katelin Morrissette Jarrod M. Mosier 421
41. The Massively Soiled Airway Darren A. Braude Rudolph Princi James C. DuCanto 425
42. The Geriatric Patient Katren R. Tyler Stephen Bush 431
43. The Morbidly Obese Patient Megan Leigh Fix 438
44. Foreign Body in the Adult Airway Tatsuya Norii Heather Mahoney Erik G. Laurin 446
45. Safe Extubation in the Emergency Airway Patient Matteo Parotto 452
Index 465
