Chapter 36 – Human Factors in Airway Management
Abstract Human factors can be defined as the science of understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and how they can be adapted to improve performance…
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Chapter 35 – Training in Airway Management
Abstract Performing a stressful task under pressure is challenging. Strategies to optimise our training must focus on learning a skill correctly, and then practising that skill deliberately to avoid compromising…
Chapter 34 – Departmental and Hospital Organisation
Abstract Although an individual anaesthesia provider secures the patient’s airway, upstream organisational events will influence how airway management is actually performed in any institution. Decisions around equipment purchases, staff training,…
Chapter 33 – The Airway in Anaesthesia for Transoral Robotic Surgery
Abstract Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) allows resection of otherwise inaccessible pathology. It generates unique challenges to the airway management of the patient due to the shared location of the anaesthetist…
Chapter 32 – The Bloody and Bleeding Airway
Abstract Bleeding in the upper airway is an important cause of airway-related death, even in young and otherwise healthy individuals. The estimated lifetime incidence of epistaxis is approximately 60%; post-tonsillectomy…
Chapter 31 – Airway Management during CPR
Abstract The priorities of airway management during cardiopulmonary resuscitation are to minimise interruptions in chest compressions, to optimise blood flow and oxygen delivery to vital organs and to minimise delays…
Chapter 29 – The Patient with a Tracheostomy
Abstract Although the term ‘tracheostomy’ simply means a hole entering the trachea, it can be usefully divided into tracheostomy (in which a hole is made between the anterior neck and…
Chapter 30 – Pre-hospital and Trauma Airway Management
Abstract Pre-hospital airway management is an essential skill for every pre-hospital clinician and should be performed to the same standards as would be expected in the emergency department. This chapter…
Chapter 28 – Airway Management in the Critically Ill
Abstract Many studies from around the world, especially NAP4 in the UK, have demonstrated that airway management in critically ill patients, whether in the intensive care unit, emergency department or…
Chapter 27 – Lung Separation
Abstract For many thoracic operations lung separation to enable collapse of the operated lung is either necessary or useful for successful surgery. Lung separation may also be required in other…
