Editorial Review:

The Airway Cam Guide to intubation and Practical Emergency Airway Management provides a practical approach to first pass intubation success. Techniques, airway anatomy, and case examples are illustrated using more than 450 full color photographs, including step-by-step laryngoscopy images from Dr. Levitan's patented Airway Cam. This head-mounted camera aligns with the dominant pupil and permits imaging of laryngoscopy from the operator's perspective. Airway Cam videotapes are used in more than 2,500 hospitals and EMS systems in 25 states.

Explains the importance of finding the epiglottis first and recognizing laryngeal landmarks, especially the posterior cartilages and interarytenoid notch.

Provides an overall laryngoscopy strategy with fast and effective maneuvers for improving laryngeal view--external laryngeal manipulation, head-elevated laryngoscopy positioning, and straight-to-cuff stylet shaping.

Offers clear guidelines on when to avoid RSI and use awake approaches.

Covers special clinical challenges, and the selection of laryngoscopy equipment and alternative devices.

Includes nasal intubation, surgical approaches, pediatric laryngoscopy, and creating practical emergency airway kits.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Flight RN Review:

This book should be read by those individuals who are responsible for intubations. It is especially useful and beneficial to read this after one has been performing intubations for a few months. Dr. Levitan goes over RSI's pros & cons, as well as airway assessments for those in emergent situations. This is in contrast to most of the current literature out there which focuses on elective surgical procedures and thus intubations in non-emergent settings. Again, if you perform intubations in emergency... more info

Useful photos:

Straightforward instructions and descriptions of procedures with excellent accompanying photographs of cord visualization and how to maximize. Cool sections that cover procedures like cricothyrotomy using a Melker kit, retrograde intubation, direct tracheal intubation w/trauma, using a glidescope... Great to have it all in the same book.

The title does not decieve: This is THE practical guide.:

Having first read Ron Walls "Manual of Emergency Airway Management," which I considered the benchmark against which airway management books were judged, I was stunned by the differences. Levitan's book is appropriately entitled "Practical Emergency Airway Management" precisely because it is rooted more firmly in reality and practice than theory. It reads less like stereo instructions and more like a well-constructed argument for his perspective on airway management.
Rich with color photographs, and... more info

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