Product Description

Competent airway management is a vital skill: inability to handle the airway can lead at best to abandoning the case, and at worst to death. This book is an essential guide to airway management for trainee anaesthetists and intensivists, operating department practitioners and anaesthetic/theatre nurses. It is designed to be non-intimidating, and to cover the necessary essentials in such a way as to be easily accessible and readily understood by the new trainee or busy nurse without the time to look through large textbooks. Emphasis is given to the basics of airway assessment, how to handle vital emergency procedures and the difficult airway--all situations which will be familiar in any hospital.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1979381 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-05
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .42 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

Book Info
William Harvey Hospital, Kent, UK. Pocket-sized reference provides concise, key information on basic airway management, including anesthesia and its complications. Discusses managing vital emergency procedures, difficult emergency management, and more. For physicians and residents. Softcover.

About the Author
Sylva Dolenska was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and attended medical school at Charles University, Prague. After moving to Britain in 1982, she trained as an anaesthetist, and has been a consultant since 2000. She is currently Consultant Anaesthetist at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, and has also acquired the KSS Deanery Certificate in Teaching. Her other key professional interests are airway management and obstetric anaesthesia.