Book contents
- Core Topics in Airway Management
- Core Topics in Airway Management
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Section 1 Airway Management: Background and Techniques
- Chapter 1 Anatomy
- Chapter 2 Physiology of Apnoea, Hypoxia and Airway Reflexes
- Chapter 3 The Epidemiology of Airway Management Complications
- Chapter 4 Structured Planning of Airway Management
- Chapter 5 Pre-anaesthetic Airway Assessment
- Chapter 6 Pre-anaesthetic Airway Endoscopy, Real and Virtual
- Chapter 7 Ultrasonography for Airway Management
- Chapter 8 Oxygenation: before, during and after Airway Management
- Chapter 9 Awake Tracheal Intubation
- Chapter 10 Drugs for Airway Management
- Chapter 11 How to Avoid Morbidity from Aspiration of Gastric Content to the Lungs
- Chapter 12 Face Mask Ventilation
- Chapter 13 Supraglottic Airways
- Chapter 14 Tracheal Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy
- Chapter 15 Tracheal Tube Introducers (Bougies), Stylets and Airway Exchange Catheters
- Chapter 16 Tracheal Intubation Using the Flexible Optical Bronchoscope
- Chapter 17 Videolaryngoscopy
- Chapter 18 Expiratory Ventilation Assistance and Ventilation through Narrow Tubes
- Chapter 19 Multimodal Techniques for Airway Management
- Chapter 20 Front of Neck Airway (FONA)
- Chapter 21 Extubation
- Section 2 Airway Management: Clinical Settings and Subspecialties
- Section 3 Airway Management: Organisation
- Index
- References
Chapter 6 - Pre-anaesthetic Airway Endoscopy, Real and Virtual
from Section 1 - Airway Management: Background and Techniques
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2020
Book contents
- Core Topics in Airway Management
- Core Topics in Airway Management
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Section 1 Airway Management: Background and Techniques
- Chapter 1 Anatomy
- Chapter 2 Physiology of Apnoea, Hypoxia and Airway Reflexes
- Chapter 3 The Epidemiology of Airway Management Complications
- Chapter 4 Structured Planning of Airway Management
- Chapter 5 Pre-anaesthetic Airway Assessment
- Chapter 6 Pre-anaesthetic Airway Endoscopy, Real and Virtual
- Chapter 7 Ultrasonography for Airway Management
- Chapter 8 Oxygenation: before, during and after Airway Management
- Chapter 9 Awake Tracheal Intubation
- Chapter 10 Drugs for Airway Management
- Chapter 11 How to Avoid Morbidity from Aspiration of Gastric Content to the Lungs
- Chapter 12 Face Mask Ventilation
- Chapter 13 Supraglottic Airways
- Chapter 14 Tracheal Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy
- Chapter 15 Tracheal Tube Introducers (Bougies), Stylets and Airway Exchange Catheters
- Chapter 16 Tracheal Intubation Using the Flexible Optical Bronchoscope
- Chapter 17 Videolaryngoscopy
- Chapter 18 Expiratory Ventilation Assistance and Ventilation through Narrow Tubes
- Chapter 19 Multimodal Techniques for Airway Management
- Chapter 20 Front of Neck Airway (FONA)
- Chapter 21 Extubation
- Section 2 Airway Management: Clinical Settings and Subspecialties
- Section 3 Airway Management: Organisation
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the well-established skill of upper airway endoscopy as a tool for assessing the upper airway and planning the best airway management approach for anaesthesia. It also describes the emerging modality of virtual airway endoscopy, which can examine both upper and lower airway, and its potential roles. Both techniques focus on examination of the air column within the airway (Greenland’s ‘middle column’) but can reach beyond the sight of the naked eye. Both techniques have potential to aid understanding of the patient’s airway anatomy and pathology and can enable improved airway planning.
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- Core Topics in Airway Management , pp. 58 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
References
Further Reading
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El-Boghdadly, K, Onwochei, DN, Millhoff, B, Ahmad, I. (2017). The effect of virtual endoscopy on diagnostic accuracy and airway management strategies in patients with head and neck pathology: a prospective cohort study. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, 64, 1101–1110.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ovassapian, A, Glassenberg, R, Randel, GI, et al. (2002). The unexpected difficult airway and lingual tonsil hyperplasia: a case series and review of the literature. Anesthesiology, 97, 124–132.Google Scholar
Rosenblatt, W, Ianus, AI, Sukhupragarn, W, Fickenscher, A, Sasaki, C. (2004). Preoperative endoscopic airway examination (PEAE) provides superior airway information and may reduce the use of unnecessary awake intubation. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 112, 602–607. http://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181fdfc1cCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Samuelson, ST, Burnett, G, Sim, AJ, et al. (2016). Simulation as a set-up for technical proficiency: can a virtual warm-up improve live fibre-optic intubation? British Journal of Anaesthesia, 116, 398–404.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed