Flow Controlled Ventilation Mode Through a Straw Size Tube

This book focuses on Flow-controlled Ventilation (FCV), the most recent innovation in the field of airway management and ventilation. In this book, the authors explain how ventilation through a straw-size or ultra-thin endotracheal tube is possible with FCV along with the clinical application of FCV in managing complex cases, particularly those presenting for head and neck surgery for a narrow airway diameter, totally obstructed airway and various cases of “cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate” situation.

Readers will learn: the physical and physiological principles governing how FCV works; how to prepare and setup the FCV ventilators to be used with ultra-thin tube (outer diameter 4.4 mm and inner diameter 2.4 mm); identifying commonly encountered issues and troubleshooting; how to manage various cases of difficult airway encountered in various settings (prehospital or intra-operatively); how to tackle a “Cannot intubate, Cannot oxygenate” scenario in a simple way.

The book is intended to be a reference guide that could be easily carried during the daily clinical work with the aim of providing a better healthcare and promoting patients’ safety.

It is intended for healthcare providers working in various clinical settings including but not limited to intensivists, anaesthetists, pulmonary physicians, medical residents, medical students, medical fellows, anaesthesia residents, nurses, anaesthesia technical staff, respiratory therapists, certified registered nurses in anaesthesia, and paramedics.

Professor Nabil A. Shallik, MD, is an Associate professor of Clinical Anaesthesiology at Qatar University in Qatar, Associate professor of Clinical Anaesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and Associate professor of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care at Tanta Faculty of Medicine in Egypt, Associate head of anaesthesia services Ambulatory Care Centre, Anaesthesia Department IT & CPD lead at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. He also works as a senior consultant in Anaesthesia, ICU and Perioperative Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. He has published more than 50 articles in national and international peer-reviewed medical journals including perioperative, pain and airway publications. He is the main author of numerous book chapters, and editor of many medical books. He is a leading researcher in airway management in the Middle East and his research interests mainly focus on perioperative care and on new tools for airway assessment and management.

Dr. Nabil is a pioneer in anaesthesia education and a dedicated clinical teacher with more than 30 years of anaesthesia practice and 25 years of dedicated anaesthesia teaching. Dr. Nabil is a core faculty member of the Anaesthesia Residency Program, the first ACGME-I accredited program in the Middle East. As a course director for all airway workshops and courses in Qatar Robotic Surgery Centre and Itqan Simulation Centre, he is continually testing, inventing and tailoring basic and advanced educational modules related to airway skills to suit different health care providers. Dr. Nabil is an active contributor to international anaesthesia societies; Airway Management Academy (AMA) and European Airway Management Society (EAMS), Difficult Airway Society (DAS) and he is the founder of Difficult Airway management (DAM) Society for Middle East and Gulf area (MENA). He received innovation funding from the Academic Health System (AHS) in HMC and Qatar foundation (QF) for the development of many airway-related projects. He has Five United State (US) patents for airway projects, he received many Awards from national and international bodies.

He is the director of Head and Neck Anesthesia and Advanced Airway Management Fellowship program (HANAAM). As a manager he streamlined the clinical service in the ENT anaesthesia department, was a major force behind the transformation of the Hamad Medical Corporation into an academic health system, the implementation of electronic medical record, the Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation of the Corporation and is frequently invited as guest speaker in national and international conferences.