International Journal of Anesthesia and Clinical Medicine

Special Issue

Airway Management in Neurosurgical Patients

  • Submission Deadline: 10 June 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Zahid Hussain Khan
About This Special Issue
Neurosurgical cases have a plethora of airway problems ranging from raised intracranial pressure, hydrocephalus, Cushing's disease, Cushing syndrome, acromegaly, severe micrognathia, acute & chronic subdural hematoma, epidural hematoma, compromised spinal cord, ankylosing spondylitis, fracture and dislocations of the odontoid and upper cervical vertebrae, immobile cervical spine because of fixed cervical vertebrae and hard collar application. Such challenging cases need to be managed carefully as far as airway management is concerned to prevent any catastrophic sequelae. The airway of such cases can be managed employing direct laryngoscopy, awake fiber-optic intubation, retrograde intubation or the use of special appliances such as LMA, fast track LMA, Bullard laryngoscope, McCoy laryngoscope. In some cases, however elective tracheostomy is indicated. This issue of the journal focuses on the airway management of such complicated and challenging cases in neurosurgery.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Neurosurgery
  2. Raised intracranial pressure
  3. Traumatic brain injury
  4. Cervical vertebrae fracture and dislocation
  5. Endocrine abnormalities
  6. Airway management
Lead Guest Editor
  • Zahid Hussain Khan

    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Guest Editors
  • Ashish Sinha

    Department of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine & Physiology, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, United States

  • Carin A Hagberg

    Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, United States

  • Brendan Finucane

    Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  • Orlando Hung

    Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine,Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

  • Fauzia Anis Khan

    Department of Anaesthesia, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

  • Surender K Malhotra

    Department of Anesthesiology, MM Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Mullana, India