Hung's Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway

A full-color, case-based guide to effectively managing airway difficulties—updated to reflect the latest guidelines, devices, and techniques

Written by the creators of the Difficult Airway Course: Anesthesia™ and presented in full-color, this trusted guide covers the latest guidelines, leading-edge principles, tools, and procedures of airway assessment and management. Multidisciplinary in scope, Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, Fourth Edition encompasses the key areas of anesthesia, hospitalists, intensivists, emergency medicine, and paramedicine.

This new edition includes the most up-to-date review available of the many innovations that been introduced since publication of the previous edition. This is accompanied by a thorough review of the pharmacology of airway management designed to help you understand how to achieve the desired effects on ventilation and muscle strength.

Comprehensive review of the difficult or failed airway
Chapter-ending questions reinforce learning
Dozens of airway management vignettes
New: 15 additional chapters
New: Coverage on managing COVID-19 patients
New: Content focused on standard of care in a global crisis in critical care
Full-color illustrations