The Difficult Airway

1. The Difficult Airway: Definitions and Algorithms
Zdravka Zafirova, Avery Tung

2. The Expected Difficult Airway
Satya Krishna Ramachandran, Sachin Kheterpal

3. The Role of Awake Intubation
P. Allan Klock

4. Unanticipated Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy: Methods to Improve Its Success
Mark E. Nunnally, Michael R. Hernandez

5. The Role of Rigid Fiberoptic Laryngoscopes
Richard M. Cooper

6. Role of Rigid Video Laryngoscopy
Richard M. Cooper, Corina Lee

7. The Role of the Supraglottic Airway
Irene P. Osborn

8. The Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy
David B. Glick

9. The Role of Optical Stylets
Richard Levitan

10. The Role of the Lightwand
Ashutosh Wali

11. Role of Retrograde Intubation
Martin Dauber

12. The Role of the Combitube and Laryngeal Tube
Michael Woo, Michael F. O’Connor

13. The Role of Transtracheal Jet Ventilation
Julio Cortiñas-Díaz, Seth Manoach

14. The Role of Surgical Airway Access
Kerstin M. Stenson

15. Evaluation and Management of the Difficult Pre-Hospital Airway
Janis P. Tupesis, Nathan Dyk

16. Extubation of the Difficult Airway
Louise Ellard, Richard M. Cooper

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Anesthesiology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine