topic:"Airway Management - methods" found 3 records - Provincial Hospitals Library Catalogue

Covid-19 Airway Management and Ventilation Strategy for Critically Ill Older Patients

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Nicola Vargas, Antonio M. Esquinas, editors. --Cham: Springer , c2020.

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This book describes the issues and challenges that clinicians encountered in the management of older critically ill patients during the Covid-19 pandemic, and offers practical information on how to manage them. Older adults are more susceptible to complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a result of viral pneumonia. In addition, they often have multiple comorbidities and are commonly frail, which means their various organs and systems, such as the respiratory system, …

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Other Authors: Vargas, Nicola; Esquinas, Antonio M.

Responsibility: Nicola Vargas, Antonio M. Esquinas, editors

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2020

Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 216 p.) : 27 illus., 18 illus. in color

ISBN: 9783030556211; 9783030556204 (Print ed.); 9783030556228 (Print ed.); 9783030556235 (Print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Aged; Airway Management - methods; Coronavirus Infections - therapy; Critical Care - methods

Other Subjects: COVID-19

Specialty: Critical Care; Geriatrics; Infectious Disease Medicine; Pulmonary Medicine

Abstract: This book describes the issues and challenges that clinicians encountered in the management of older critically ill patients during the Covid-19 pandemic, and offers practical information on how to manage them. Older adults are more susceptible to complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a result of viral pneumonia. In addition, they often have multiple comorbidities and are commonly frail, which means their various organs and systems, such as the respiratory system, have reduced functional reserves. As such, older adults are less able to react to acute stressors. During the current Covid-19 pandemic, older adult patients' mortality is increased. Further, the infection and death rates of elderly people in nursing homes and health care institutions are high. Management of older adults with Covid is complicated. The reduced availability of beds may limit their access to ICU. Moreover, the prognosis may be poor, and airway management and ventilation strategies have to take into account various clinical and physiological characteristics specific to older patients. This book is addressed to all allied professionals involved in the management of older critically ill patients and presents information collected and practical lessons learned from the clinical daily management of this population during the pandemic.

Contents: Part I. Epidemiology -- 1. Mortality and prognosis of older patients during COVID-19 pandemic -- 2. Elderly pneumonia COVID 19 cases : impact on the outcome -- 3. Incidence of ARF due to COVID 19 interstitial pneumonia -- 4. Changing the demographics in ICU Touring the Covid 19 pandemic -- Part II. The diagnosis of COVID ARF in Elderly -- 5. Differential diagnosis of types of pneumonia in the elderly -- 6. The diagnosis of COVID ARF in elderly: the radiological findings in elderly -- Part III. The screening and the access to ICU -- 7. The screening and the access to ICU -- 8. The decision - making process of selection in the clinical pathway for COVID 19: the recommendations for older patients -- 9. COVID-19: End of life care decision making and preferences in older people -- Part IV. Management of ARF -- 10. The impact frailty, comorbidity and ageing of the respiratory system on the unfavourable prognosis of COVID 19 -- 11. The physiopathology of COVID acute respiratory failure -- 12. Escalation therapy for ARF in elderly patient -- 13. Oxygen therapy : liberal versus conservative in older patients with COVID disease -- 14. The role of non-invasive ventilation -- 15. The invasive ventilation in older patients: the timing -- 16. The role of ECMO -- 17. The role of HFNC -- 18. The problem of aerosolization -- Part V. The setting -- 19. The older patients in subacute units -- 20. The ICU -- 21. The admission of older patients with COVID 19 in the general wards -- 22. The management of elderly patients with COVID out of the hospital: the Italian experience -- Part VI. Conclusion -- 23. The geriatric perspectives in the time of COVID 19.

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The Difficult Airway : An Atlas of Tools and Techniques for Clinical Management

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David B. Glick, Richard M. Cooper, Andranik Ovassapian, editors. --New York, NY: Springer , c2013.

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The Difficult Airway provides comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways. The book begins with a review of current definitions of the difficult airway, its incidence, and the evolution of algorithms to facilitate its management. The chapters that follow offer a comprehensive update on the techniques and concepts described in the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Difficult Airway Algorithm. Noted experts in each…

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Author: Glick, David B

Other Authors: Cooper, Richard M; Ovassapian, Andranik

Responsibility: David B. Glick, Richard M. Cooper, Andranik Ovassapian, editors

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2013

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 295 p. : 237 ill., 219 ill. in color)

ISBN: 9780387928494

Subjects (MeSH): Airway Management - methods; Airway Obstruction - therapy; Critical Care - methods; Respiratory Therapy - methods

Subjects (LCSH): Anesthesiology; Emergency medicine; Critical care medicine; Pneumonology

Abstract: The Difficult Airway provides comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways. The book begins with a review of current definitions of the difficult airway, its incidence, and the evolution of algorithms to facilitate its management. The chapters that follow offer a comprehensive update on the techniques and concepts described in the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Difficult Airway Algorithm. Noted experts in each of the techniques have been recruited by the book editors to present the information. Figures throughout the book illustrate important points and procedures. This is a wonderful resource for health care professionals who are concerned with the management of the difficult airway, including anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians, emergency room physicians, nurses, and out-of-hospital first responders.

Contents: 1. The Difficult Airway: Definitions and Algorithms -- 2. The Expected Difficult Airway -- 3. The Role of Awake Intubation -- 4. Unanticipated Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy: Methods to Improve Its Success -- 5. The Role of Rigid Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy -- 6. Role of Rigid Video Laryngoscopy -- 7. The Role of the Supraglottic Airway -- 8. The Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy -- 9. The Role of Optical Stylets -- 10. The Role of the Lightwand -- 11. Role of Retrograde Intubation -- 12. The Role of the Combitube and Laryngeal Tube -- 13. The Role of Transtracheal Jet Ventilation -- 14. The Role of Surgical Airway Access -- 15. Evaluation and Management of the Difficult Pre-Hospital Airway -- 16. Extubation of the Difficult Airway.