Book contents
- Core Topics in Airway Management
- Core Topics in Airway Management
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Section 1 Airway Management: Background and Techniques
- Chapter 1 Anatomy
- Chapter 2 Physiology of Apnoea, Hypoxia and Airway Reflexes
- Chapter 3 The Epidemiology of Airway Management Complications
- Chapter 4 Structured Planning of Airway Management
- Chapter 5 Pre-anaesthetic Airway Assessment
- Chapter 6 Pre-anaesthetic Airway Endoscopy, Real and Virtual
- Chapter 7 Ultrasonography for Airway Management
- Chapter 8 Oxygenation: before, during and after Airway Management
- Chapter 9 Awake Tracheal Intubation
- Chapter 10 Drugs for Airway Management
- Chapter 11 How to Avoid Morbidity from Aspiration of Gastric Content to the Lungs
- Chapter 12 Face Mask Ventilation
- Chapter 13 Supraglottic Airways
- Chapter 14 Tracheal Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy
- Chapter 15 Tracheal Tube Introducers (Bougies), Stylets and Airway Exchange Catheters
- Chapter 16 Tracheal Intubation Using the Flexible Optical Bronchoscope
- Chapter 17 Videolaryngoscopy
- Chapter 18 Expiratory Ventilation Assistance and Ventilation through Narrow Tubes
- Chapter 19 Multimodal Techniques for Airway Management
- Chapter 20 Front of Neck Airway (FONA)
- Chapter 21 Extubation
- Section 2 Airway Management: Clinical Settings and Subspecialties
- Section 3 Airway Management: Organisation
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - Ultrasonography for Airway Management
from Section 1 - Airway Management: Background and Techniques
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2020
Book contents
- Core Topics in Airway Management
- Core Topics in Airway Management
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Section 1 Airway Management: Background and Techniques
- Chapter 1 Anatomy
- Chapter 2 Physiology of Apnoea, Hypoxia and Airway Reflexes
- Chapter 3 The Epidemiology of Airway Management Complications
- Chapter 4 Structured Planning of Airway Management
- Chapter 5 Pre-anaesthetic Airway Assessment
- Chapter 6 Pre-anaesthetic Airway Endoscopy, Real and Virtual
- Chapter 7 Ultrasonography for Airway Management
- Chapter 8 Oxygenation: before, during and after Airway Management
- Chapter 9 Awake Tracheal Intubation
- Chapter 10 Drugs for Airway Management
- Chapter 11 How to Avoid Morbidity from Aspiration of Gastric Content to the Lungs
- Chapter 12 Face Mask Ventilation
- Chapter 13 Supraglottic Airways
- Chapter 14 Tracheal Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy
- Chapter 15 Tracheal Tube Introducers (Bougies), Stylets and Airway Exchange Catheters
- Chapter 16 Tracheal Intubation Using the Flexible Optical Bronchoscope
- Chapter 17 Videolaryngoscopy
- Chapter 18 Expiratory Ventilation Assistance and Ventilation through Narrow Tubes
- Chapter 19 Multimodal Techniques for Airway Management
- Chapter 20 Front of Neck Airway (FONA)
- Chapter 21 Extubation
- Section 2 Airway Management: Clinical Settings and Subspecialties
- Section 3 Airway Management: Organisation
- Index
- References
Summary
Ultrasonography is an established modality in medical imaging and is evermore entering clinical practice. This chapter provides an introduction to the principles of clinical ultrasonography. It describes the use of airway ultrasonography for identification of the cricothyroid membrane, the trachea and for confirming correct tracheal intubation. Bedside ultrasonography by the anaesthetist has a much higher success rate than palpation for identifying the cricothyroid membrane, especially in patients with neck pathology. It should be applied before initiation of airway management and not be delayed until airway problems are apparent. The role of lung ultrasonography for identification of normal ventilation and pathology is described. Gastric ultrasonography for assessing the starvation status of a patient is described.
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Kristensen, MS, Teoh, WH, Rudolph, SS. (2016). Ultrasonographic identification of the cricothyroid membrane: best evidence, techniques, and clinical impact. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 117(Suppl 1), i39–i48.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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