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Airway Management in the Neurointensive Care Unit

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Airway management in the critical care setting encompasses a wide, diverse range of topics, well beyond simply tracheal intubation. The delivery of oxygen and effective ventilation is affected by a multitude of clinical situations in the intensive care arena that can be lifesaving but equally could threaten the patient’s outcome if not properly executed in a timely manner. From noninvasive ventilation devices extending to an accidently decannulated “fresh” bleeding tracheostomy site, it is imperative that the ICU offers the ability to deploy an experienced airway team equipped with basic and advanced airway adjuncts coupled with primary and secondary rescue strategies in the pursuit of improved patient safety.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hartford Hospital, University of Connecticut, 37 Heather Glen Road, Glastonbury, CT, 06033, USA

    Thomas C. Mort MD

  2. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Jeffrey P. Keck Jr. MD

  3. Departments of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, 41501, USA

    Jeffrey P. Keck Jr. MD

  4. Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, 06102, USA

    Leah Meisterling DO, MBA

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA

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Mort, T.C., Keck, J.P., Meisterling, L. (2013). Airway Management in the Neurointensive Care Unit. In: Layon, A., Gabrielli, A., Friedman, W. (eds) Textbook of Neurointensive Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5226-2_10

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