Principles of Airway Management
Principles of Airway Management is the leading text on the essentials of airway management. First published in 1988 and now in its Fourth Edition, it remains the text of choice for clinicians and trainees across a range of specialties – anesthesiolo
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Brendan T. Finucane Ban C.H. Tsui Albert H. Santora ●
Principles of Airway Management
Brendan T. Finucane, MBBCh, FRCPC Professor Emeritus Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta Director of Anesthesia Services Cross Cancer Institute Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Staff Anesthesiologist Leduc Community Hospital Leduc, Alberta, Canada
Ban C.H. Tsui, Dip Eng, BSc(Math), B Pharm, MD, MSc, FRCPC Professor Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Director, Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Service Stollery Children’s Hospital University of Alberta Hospital Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Albert H. Santora, MD Athens, GA USA
ISBN 978-0-387-09557-8 e-ISBN 978-0-387-09558-5 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-09558-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Cover illustration: Figures 1.1-1.26, 2.2, 2.7, 2.8, 2.13, 3.2, 3.11, 9.6, 9.7, 10.1, 10.5 and 15.3-15.6 were redrawn by Alice Y. Chen (www.aliceychen.com). Figures 2.9, 3.3-3.8, 3.12-3.17, 10.3 and 10.9 were also colorized by the artist. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
We would like to dedicate this edition of the book to our patients, our teachers, our students and our families. Dr. Tsui would especially like to express his deepest appreciation of the great encouragement provided to him during his academic career by his father, Woon-Tak Tsui, whom he lost suddenly during the preparation of this edition. Finally, we dedicate this book to the memory of Dr. Andranik Ovassapian (1936 – 2010) who pioneered the use of the flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope, establishing the instrument as a fundamental airway management device. He taught thousands of practitioners how to perform fiberoptically guided tracheal intubation. His contributions to the field of airway management were abundant and revolutionary including the founding of the Society for Airway Management in 1995. Dr. Ovas
