Book Review

Book review: Castillo-Monzón CG, Marroquin-Valz HA, Gigante-Castaño SM. Airway management: what do we know? 1st ed. Madrid: Ergon; 2015^*

Reseña bibliográfica: Castillo-Monzón CG, Marroquín-Valz HA, Gigante-Castaño SM. Manejo de la vía aérea ¿qué sabemos? 1st ed. Madrid: Ergon; 2015

José Ricardo Navarro-Vargas^a,b,**

^a Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
^b President of the Colombian Society of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation — S.C.A.R.E., Bogotá D.C., Colombia

^* Please cite this article as: Navarro-Vargas JR. Reseña bibliográfica: Manejo de la vía aérea ¿qué sabemos? Rev Colomb Anestesiol. 2016;44:77.
^** Correspondence to: Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
E-mail address: jrnavarrov@unal.edu.co

The book Airway management: what do we know?¹ is written by fellow anesthesiologists that make up a team with many years of work experience in Murcia, Spain. One of the authors is Dr. Caridad Greta Castillo Monzón, originally from our sister country, Peru, and a collaborator in the Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology. The text includes practical contributions, written based on experience and scientific investigation to find the best evidence for the approach and use of the different resources and devices within our reach today for securing airways.

The information reviews anatomy, clinical assessment, considerations that facilitate access to the airway, and special conditions for obese, traumatized, and gestating patients; in other words, the patients that on a day to day basis represent greater risk due to their anatomical characteristics or their stress situations.

This book relies on the use of clinical cases and the final chapter is very telling of the teaching conditions of the authors with regard to simulation and education as tools that prepare future professionals in the clinical setting. This up-to-date material is worth consulting.

References

1. Castillo-Monzón CG, Marroquín-Valz HA, Gigante-Castaño SM. Airway management: what do we know? 1st ed. Madrid: Ergon; 2015.         [ Links ]