Management of the Difficult Airway: A Handbook for Surgeons by Jerome W Thompson

Management of the Difficult Airway: A Handbook for Surgeons is 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