The Difficult Airway provides comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways.

Table of Contents1.The Difficult Airway: Definitions and Algorithms - Zdravka Zafirova and Avery Tung2.The  Expected Difficult Airway - Satya Krishna Ramachandran and Sachin Kheterpal3.The Role of Awake Intubation - P. Allan Klock, Jr.4.Unanticipated Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy: Methods to Improve Its Success - Mark E. Nunnally and Michael R. Hernandez5.The Role of Rigid Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy - Richard M. Cooper6.Role of Rigid Video Laryngoscopy - Richard M. Cooper and Corina Lee7.The Role of the Supraglottic Airway - Irene P. Osborn8.The Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy - David Glick9.The Role of Optical Stylets - Richard Levitan10.The Role of the Lightwand - Ashutosh Wali11.Role of retrograde intubation - Martin Dauber12.The Role of the Combitube and Laryngeal Tube - Michael Woo and Michael F. O'Connor13.The Role of Transtracheal Jet Ventilation - Julio Cortiñas-Diaz and Seth Manoach14.The Role of Surgical Airway Access - Kerstin M. Stenson15.Evaluation and Management of the Difficult Pre-Hospital Airway - Janis P. Tupesis and Nathan Van Dyk16.Extubation of the Difficult Airway - Richard Cooper and Louise Ellard