Cricothyrotomy: A Lesson to Be Learned
Occasionally a cricothyrotomy is the only technique that will correct an obstructed airway. Anesthesia providers must know how to perform a cricothyrotomy quickly, effectively and safely. The technique using a knife is described and case examples of when
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Practical Anesthetic Management
C. Philip Larson Jr. • Richard A. Jaffe
Practical Anesthetic Management The Art of Anesthesiology
C. Philip Larson Jr., MDCM Professor Emeritus, Anesthesia and Neurosurgery Stanford University Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology (Ret.) David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA, USA
Richard A. Jaffe, MD, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA, USA
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With love and appreciation to Donna and Judy without whose help and support, this book would not have been possible.
Preface
Contemporary anesthesia care, like virtually all segments of medicine, requires its practitioners to adhere to evidence-based medicine in their daily practice to the maximum extent possible. This policy has the effect of both standardizing much of the care provided and presumably providing the highest quality of care. These represent distinct advantages to patients requiring anesthesia. However, neither the content nor the quality of evidence-based practice is perfect. From time to time on careful reanalysis, “best practice” is found to be flawed. Many evidence-based findings become “fact” and part of everyday practice without their ever being verified or even reanalyzed by other investigators. Understandably, scientists would rather publish “a new study with new findings” than painstakingly undertake a study to confirm what another scientific group has a
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