TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Foreword A1 - Hung, Orlando R. A1 - Murphy, Michael F. PY - 2017 T2 - Hung's Difficult and Failed Airway Management, 3e AB - Although the practice of anesthesia professionals and others who do airway management is full of unexpected challenges, perhaps nothing strikes more fear in our hearts than a patient with a difficult airway. Unlike other events, which may be limited to certain narrow sub-specialties, challenging airway management occurs across nearly all domains of patient care, all patient ages, and many sites of care such as perioperative, emergency department, ward settings, as well as in unusual sites such as pre-hospital or combat casualty care. Hence, books such as this are vital as contextual compilations of up-to-date information on approaches and techniques for the myriad needs of patients for oxygenation and ventilation. Most simply put, the most fundamental goal of airway management is to accomplish what for most patients is routine, but for some is so elusive, which is—as one of my supervising attending and later faculty colleague (Mervyn Maze) put it years ago, to “get some green gas in the right hole [U.S. oxygen color code is green].” This spirit is exemplified in the modern evolution from the notion of “can’t intubate, can’t ventilate” to “can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate” emphasizing that oxygenation comes first with ventilation as important, but still secondary. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/15 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146614778 ER -