The Airway Manual

The book provides up-to-date and easy to understand information on airway management with special emphasis on practical management along with required theory background and key points. It covers all aspects of airway management including education, training, audit, controversies, recent advances, case discussion, etc. The book covers all the techniques of airway management like the use of video laryngoscopy, fibre-optic intubation, and retrograde intubation. Further, the book includes a chapter on airway management during transmittable infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. The book also includes separate chapters on the available guidelines; discussion of interesting cases; neonatal airway; and out of hospital airway management. The book is written by experienced authors keeping in mind the unique problems and situations related to this specialized and vital area of patient management. It presents summary and key points in each chapter. Overall, this book provides practical,specialty oriented and patient centered approach to airway management.

 The book is a useful resource for postgraduate students, residents and fellows in anesthesia, emergency medicine, critical care medicine. It is also relevant for anesthesiologists, intensivists, emergency physicians and internal medicine physicians.

Dr. Raveendra Shankaranarayana Ubaradka, currently working as a consultant anesthesiologist at Jerudong Park Medical Centre and Maxillofacial, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center in Brunei Darussalam, has been working in the field of anesthesia in different capacities for nearly three decades of which almost 25 years as medical college teacher. He had the privilege of developing the department of anesthesiology at K S Hegde Medical Academy, Mangalore, India. He has been involved in conducting numerous training programs and workshops related to airway management including fiberoptic airway management in many places across the country. He has contributed a chapter on pediatric difficult airway to a pediatric anesthesia manual. Dr Raveendra is recognized for the contribution in maxillofacial anesthesia where difficult airway is frequent. He was the founder secretary of All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA) and was a part of the guidelines group of AIDAA which published the first Indian guidelines related to difficult airway management in 2016. He has delivered many guest lectures related to airway management in various scientific meetings and conferences including 21^st ASEAN Congress of Anesthesiologists (ACA) held in Brunei in 2019. He has years of clinical and academic experience and reasonably good record of performance in the area of airway management . 

Dr. Nishkarsh Gupta (MBBS, MD, MNAMS, PGCCHM, NFPM) is working as additional professor in the department of onco-anesthesiology and palliative medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He has been a keen researcher with more than 180 publications to his name. He has written 30 book chapters. He has been the pioneer in the field of difficult airway in onco-anesthesia. He has been an invited faculty for more than 100 conferences. He has conducted many airway workshops across India. He is on the editorial board ofseveral journals. He is the editor of the South Asian adaptation of two of the most widely popular books in anesthesia “Clinical Anesthesia by Barash” and "Understanding Anesthesia Equipment by Dorsch & Dorsch".

Dr. Prasanna Udupi Bidkar is the head of the division of neuroanesthesiology at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) Pondicherry. He is well-known in the field of neuroanesthesiology and neurocritical care in India. He is an expert in the field of airway management in neurosurgery and onco-anesthesia. He has many publications in reputed international journals. He has written several chapters in various books and edited a book. He is the current treasurer of two national Indian societies (Indian Society of Neuroanesthesiology and Critical Care, and the Neurocritical Care Society of India). He has served in different capacities at various conferences and has been an invited faculty for more than 120 conferences.

Dr. Debendra Kumar Tripathy is working as additional professor and ex-vice dean (innovation) at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, India. He has been pioneering in the field of ultrasound of the airway in India. He has conducted more than 10 workshops in USG in airway and delivered more than 100 lectures all over the country, and has many innovations to his credit. He has many publications and was the organizing secretary of many anesthesiology conferences in India.

Dr. Anju Gupta (MD, DNB, MNAMS, PGCCHM, IDRA) is working as an assistant professor in the department of anesthesiology, pain medicine, and critical care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She completed her MD from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, and now has over 15 years of experience in anesthesia and has been faculty at various national and international platforms. She is an avidresearcher and has more than 130 publications in reputed national and international journals and over 25 book chapters to her credit. She has won several prestigious awards and is on the editorial board of several journals. She is the editor of the South Asian adaptation of two of the most widely popular books in anesthesia “Clinical Anesthesia by Barash” and "Understanding Anesthesia Equipment by Dorsch & Dorsch".