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Manual of Emergency Airway Management
Edited by Ron M. Walls, Michael F. Murphy, and Robert C. Luten
3rd ed, 461 pp, $65
Philadelphia, PA, Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7818-8494-8
JAMA. 2009;302(7):800-802.
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The first 3 chapters of this book—"The Decision to Intubate," "The Emergency Airway Algorithms," and "Rapid Sequence Intubation"—are unusual opening chapters, because tracheal intubation is neither the first topic in teaching airway management nor the first approach to airway management. The 5 different algorithms in chapter 2—universal, main emergency, crash airway, difficult airway, and failed airway—contain repetitions that could have been avoided by combining all of the algorithms into one. The generally accepted phrase "can't intubate–can't ventilate" is changed to "can't intubate–can't oxygenate," with the suggestion that cricothyrotomy is indicated in a majority of such cases. It should be noted, however, that extraglottic devices and other intubation techniques can be applied to overcome this problem, thereby limiting cricothyrotomy to a small number of cases.
Chapter 4, "Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway," is short, well illustrated, and full of practical information. It should be noted, however, that in the fifth . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Andranik Ovassapian, MD, Reviewer
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
aovassap@dacc.uchicago.edu
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