Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Mechanisms and Demographics in Trauma
- 2 Trauma Airway Management
- 3 Shock Management
- 4 Establishing Vascular Access in the Trauma Patient
- 5 Monitoring the Trauma Patient
- 6 Fluid and Blood Therapy in Trauma
- 7 Massive Transfusion Protocols in Trauma Care
- 8 Blood Loss: Does It Change My Intravenous Anesthetic?
- 9 Pharmacology of Neuromuscular Blocking Agents and Their Reversal in Trauma Patients
- 10 Anesthesia Considerations for Abdominal Trauma
- 11 Head Trauma – Anesthesia Considerations and Management
- 12 Intensive Care Unit Management of Pediatric Brain Injury
- 13 Surgical Considerations for Spinal Cord Trauma
- 14 Anesthesia for Spinal Cord Trauma
- 15 Musculoskeletal Trauma
- 16 Anesthetic Considerations for Orthopedic Trauma
- 17 Cardiac and Great Vessel Trauma
- 18 Anesthesia Considerations for Cardiothoracic Trauma
- 19 Intraoperative One-Lung Ventilation for Trauma Anesthesia
- 20 Burn Injuries (Critical Care in Severe Burn Injury)
- 21 Anesthesia for Burns
- 22 Field Anesthesia and Military Injury
- 23 Eye Trauma and Anesthesia
- 24 Pediatric Trauma and Anesthesia
- 25 Trauma in the Elderly
- 26 Trauma in Pregnancy
- 27 Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma
- 28 Damage Control in Severe Trauma
- 29 Hypothermia in Trauma
- 30 ITACCS Management of Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Injured Patients
- 31 Trauma and Regional Anesthesia
- 32 Ultrasound Procedures in Trauma
- 33 Use of Echocardiography and Ultrasound in Trauma
- 34 Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain in Trauma
- 35 Posttrauma Chronic Pain
- 36 Trauma Systems, Triage, and Transfer
- 37 Teams, Team Training, and the Role of Simulation in Trauma Training and Management
- Index
- Plate section
- References
2 - Trauma Airway Management
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Mechanisms and Demographics in Trauma
- 2 Trauma Airway Management
- 3 Shock Management
- 4 Establishing Vascular Access in the Trauma Patient
- 5 Monitoring the Trauma Patient
- 6 Fluid and Blood Therapy in Trauma
- 7 Massive Transfusion Protocols in Trauma Care
- 8 Blood Loss: Does It Change My Intravenous Anesthetic?
- 9 Pharmacology of Neuromuscular Blocking Agents and Their Reversal in Trauma Patients
- 10 Anesthesia Considerations for Abdominal Trauma
- 11 Head Trauma – Anesthesia Considerations and Management
- 12 Intensive Care Unit Management of Pediatric Brain Injury
- 13 Surgical Considerations for Spinal Cord Trauma
- 14 Anesthesia for Spinal Cord Trauma
- 15 Musculoskeletal Trauma
- 16 Anesthetic Considerations for Orthopedic Trauma
- 17 Cardiac and Great Vessel Trauma
- 18 Anesthesia Considerations for Cardiothoracic Trauma
- 19 Intraoperative One-Lung Ventilation for Trauma Anesthesia
- 20 Burn Injuries (Critical Care in Severe Burn Injury)
- 21 Anesthesia for Burns
- 22 Field Anesthesia and Military Injury
- 23 Eye Trauma and Anesthesia
- 24 Pediatric Trauma and Anesthesia
- 25 Trauma in the Elderly
- 26 Trauma in Pregnancy
- 27 Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma
- 28 Damage Control in Severe Trauma
- 29 Hypothermia in Trauma
- 30 ITACCS Management of Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Injured Patients
- 31 Trauma and Regional Anesthesia
- 32 Ultrasound Procedures in Trauma
- 33 Use of Echocardiography and Ultrasound in Trauma
- 34 Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain in Trauma
- 35 Posttrauma Chronic Pain
- 36 Trauma Systems, Triage, and Transfer
- 37 Teams, Team Training, and the Role of Simulation in Trauma Training and Management
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
Objectives
Review the major considerations and tools needed for trauma airway management.
Characterize the difficult airway in trauma.
Evaluate the American Society of Anesthesiologists' difficult airway algorithm with regard to trauma.
Provide a plan for managing common trauma difficult airway scenarios.
INTRODUCTION
Airway management disasters account for a large proportion of malpractice lawsuits in the American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA) Closed Claims database [1]. Airway loss is a major cause of preventable prehospital death in trauma patients [2]. Trauma airway management is complicated because of associated pathology and suboptimal intubating conditions, and also because complete preintubation evaluation and planning is rarely possible. Furthermore, trauma patients are at increased risk for hypoxia, airway obstruction, hypoventilation, hypotension, and aspiration.
A significant reduction in airway management claims has occurred over the past decade due to the introduction of the ASA difficult airway algorithm, which institutionalized the need for airway evaluation, awake intubation techniques, and the use of back-up rescue modalities such as laryngeal mask airway (LMA), esophageal-tracheal-combitube (Combitube), and transtracheal jet ventilation (TTJV) [1]. It is therefore logical that incorporation of the ASA difficult airway algorithm, with certain minor modifications, can likewise improve safety during trauma airway management.
This review of airway management for trauma begins with a survey of the equipment and drugs that should be prepared ahead of time, defines and characterizes the “difficult airway,” and describes the principles of airway evaluation and management for the trauma patient under both elective and emergency conditions.
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