TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Emergent Airway Management A1 - Gibson, Timothy A2 - Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 - Chiang, Vincent W. PY - 2017 T2 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - There is no more important skill for a pediatric hospitalist than the ability to adequately manage an airway. Whether that is the placement of an emergent and definitive airway, or bag mask ventilation (BMV) until backup arrives, it is imperative that the hospitalist understand the pediatric airway and how to keep it patent. Increasingly, specialists (anesthesia, critical care) are in-house and available to the hospitalist for assistance, so the emphasis in recent years has shifted to effective stabilization, namely effective BMV. For a patient who needs prolonged ventilatory support, however, insertion of an endotracheal tube remains the definitive airway. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146125645 ER -