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Airway safety and protection |
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| Authors: |
Nakos, Georgios Karachaliou, Angeliki Kitsakos, Athanasios Koulouras, Vasileios Kostanti, Eleonora Lachana, Alexandra Papathanakos, Georgios Papathanasiou, Athanasios Stamati, Vasiliki Tigkas, Stylianos Tsagkaris, Iraklis |
| Reviewer: |
Armaganidis, Apostolos |
| Subject: | MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > HEALTH SCIENCES > MEDICINE > CLINICAL MEDICINE > THERAPEUTICS > CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > HEALTH SCIENCES > MEDICINE > INTERNAL MEDICINE |
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Airway
Management Ventilation Intubation Tracheostomy Difficult Airway Complication |
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| Abstract: |
In this chapter we introduce a short evaluation of airway patency and necessary actions to maintain and establish it.
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| Table of Contents: |
3.1. indications
3.1.1. need of assistant ventilation 3.1.2. airway protection 3.1.3. removing secretions 3.1.4. obstruction of upper airway 3.2. airway types and their usage 3.2.1. oral airways 3.2.2. nasal airways 3.2.3. laryngeal mask airway 3.3. tracheal intubation 3.3.1. oral-tracheal tubes 3.3.2. nasal-tracheal tubes 3.3.3. method of intubation 3.4. complications during intubation 3.4.1. direct blunt or penetrating trauma 3.4.2. hypoxemia 3.4.3. aspiration of gastric contents 3.4.4. Reflective closed glottis and laryngospasm 3.4.5. bronchospasm 3.4.6. mainstem bronchus intubation 3.5. difficult airway 3.6. special techniques for a difficult intubation 3.6.1. intubation in awake patients 3.6.2. fiberoptic tracheal intubation 3.6.3. intubation with the use of forceps 3.6.4. intubation with the use of an intubating stylet, or bougie 3.6.5. special kinds of laryngoscopes 3.7. recognition of an eosophageal intubation 3.8. change of a tracheal tube 3.9. extubation 3.10.post extubation management 3.11.techniques for emergency airway establishment 3.11.1. needle cricothyroidotomy 3.11.2. emergent surgical cricothyrotomy 3.12. trachiostomy 3.12.1. indications and benefits 3.12.2. transdermal trachiostomy Bibliography Evaluation criteria |
| Linguistic Editors: |
Koutsouki, Spyridoula |
| Technical Editors: |
Giannakeas, Nikolaos |
| Type: |
Chapter |
| Creation Date: | 2015 |
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| License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/870 |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Nakos, G., Karachaliou, A., Kitsakos, A., Koulouras, V., Kostanti, E., Lachana, A., Papathanakos, G., Papathanasiou, A., Stamati, V., Tigkas, S., & Tsagkaris, I. (2015). Airway safety and protection [Chapter]. In Nakos, G., Karachaliou, A., Kitsakos, A., Koulouras, V., Kostanti, E., Lachana, A., Papathanakos, G., Papathanasiou, A., Stamati, V., Tigkas, S., & Tsagkaris, I. 2015. Emergency treatment [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/870 |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Is Part of: |
Emergency treatment |
| Number of pages |
15 |
| Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |