MANUAL OF EMERGENCY AIRWAY MANAGEMENT -- Preface -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- SECTION I. Principles of Airway Management -- The Decision to Intubate -- Identification of the Difficult and Failed Airway -- The Emergency Airway Algorithms -- Applied Functional Anatomy of the Airway -- SECTION II. Oxygen Delivery -- Supplemental Oxygen -- Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation -- Mechanical Ventilation -- Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Monitoring -- SECTION III. Basic Airway Management -- Bag-Mask Ventilation -- Laryngeal Mask Airways -- Extraglottic Devices -- SECTION IV. Tracheal Intubation -- Direct Laryngoscopy -- Video Laryngoscopy -- Optical and Light-Guided Devices -- Flexible Endoscopic Intubation -- Fiberoptic and Video Intubating Stylets -- Blind Intubation Techniques -- Surgical Airway Management -- SECTION V. Pharmacology and Techniques of Airway Management -- Rapid Sequence Intubation -- Pretreatment Agents -- Sedative Induction Agents -- Neuromuscular Blocking Agents -- Anesthesia and Sedation for Awake Intubation -- SECTION VI. Pediatric Airway Management -- Differentiating Aspects of the Pediatric Airway -- Pediatric Airway Techniques -- The Difficult Pediatric Airway -- Foreign Body in the Pediatric Airway -- SECTION VII. EMS Airway Management -- Approach to the EMS Airway -- Alternative Devices for EMS Airway Management -- Difficult and Failed Airway Management in EMS -- SECTION VIII. Special Clinical Circumstances -- The Trauma Patient -- Elevated Intracranial Pressure -- Reactive Airways Disease -- Distorted Airways and Acute Upper Airway Obstruction -- The Patient in Shock -- The Pregnant Patient -- Prolonged Seizure Activity -- The Geriatric Patient -- The Morbidly Obese Patient -- Foreign Body in the Adult Airway -- INDEX.