**Meet the editor**

Dr. Riza Hakan Erbay was an anesthesiologist at the Pamukkale University in 1996. He was an assistant professor in 1997, an associate professor in 2005, and a professor in 2011. He has mainly worked in the field of orthopedic anesthesia, regional anesthesia, and intensive care medicine. He worked as an education coordinator at the Faculty of Medicine during 2007–2009 and served

as the vice president at the Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine during 2009–2012. He was an intensivist in 2013 and worked as the head of the Anesthesiology Clinic at the Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital during 2013–2014. He is currently the chairman at the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Pamukkale University.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Functional Anatomy and Phsiology of Airway 1**

Chapter 1 **Functional Anatomy and Physiology of Airway 3** Aslı Mete and İlknur Hatice Akbudak

Ilknur Hatice Akbudak and Asli Mete

Chapter 3 **Indications for Endotracheal Intubation 59**

**Section 2 Endotracheal Intubation 57**

**for Obese Patients 79**

**Section 3 Difficult Airway Intubation 113**

Chapter 6 **Intubation: Difficult Airway 115** Vaninder K. Dhillon

Yeliz Şahiner

Craig A. Troop

Chapter 2 **Pathophysiology of Apnea, Hypoxia, and Preoxygenation 23**

Chapter 4 **The Importance of Proper Positioning for Airway Management**

Chapter 5 **Long-Term Complications of Tracheal Intubation 89** Abdelfattah A. Touman and Grigoris K. Stratakos
