If you're looking for a fun, fast review that boils emergency airway and respiratory management to its mostessential, must-know points, your search ends here! EMS Respiratory Emergency Management Demystified is a complete yet concise overview of the basics of performing this critical procedure. This guide gives you the knowledge to help your patients as a student and as an EMT or paramedic once you start your career. You will learn how to perform an assessment of a patient's airway, managehis or her ventilation, utilize RSI, use best practices forspecial patient populations, and more.

Studying is easy and effective with key objectives,important terms, brief overviews, tables and diagrams, and Q&As throughout the book.

This fast and easy guide offers:

• Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter
• Coverage of essential airway management techniques
• Chapter review questions with answer explanations
• A time-saving approach to performing better on an exam or at work

Simple enough for a student, but comprehensive enough for a professional, EMS Respiratory Emergency Management DeMYSTiFieD is your shortcut to masteringthis essential, often life-saving topic.

Chapter 1 - Airway Anatomy and Physiology

Chapter 2 - Acid Base Balance, Blood Gas Analysis

Chapter 3 - Physiology of Apnea and Hypoxia

Chapter 4 - Pulse Oximetry and Capnography

Chapter 5 - Oxygen Delivery Devices and Bag Valve Mask Ventilation

Chapter 6 - Emergency Respiratory Pharmacology

Chapter 7 - Respiratory Emergencies

Chapter 8 - RSI - Why and How to Do it

Chapter 9 - Endotracheal Intubation

Chapter 10 - Post-Intubation Management

Chatper 11 - Airway Devices for Difficult Airway Management, Extraglottic (Supraglottic) Devices

Chapter 12 - Special Clinial Circumstances (Airway Management of Trauma Patients, Pediatric and Geriatric patients)

Chapter 13 - Use of Pre-hospital Ventilators

Chapter 14 - CPAP/BiPAP

Appendices