Emergency Ultrasound covers the training, techniques, and diagnostic skills needed to perform successful ultrasound exams in the emergency department.

It presents a wide range of detailed guidelines on performing ultrasound exams, case studies, and side-by-side comparisons of normal and abnormal scans.

Emergency Ultrasound, Second Edition, is fully updated and expanded to include the latest uses of this crucial diagnostic tool, including Doppler Ultrasound for deep vein thrombosis.

Features:

• NEW! Chapters on ocular applications, prehospital applications, and ultrasound-guided procedures
• NEW! Content that features the latest instruments
• NEW! Numerous color Doppler images, plus hundreds of traditional black and white ultrasound images
• NEW! DVD with videos showing the most current ultrasound procedures performed in real time
• Coverage of ultrasound in trauma, cardiac, hepatobiliary, renal, testicular, and other applications
• A templated chapter organization that consists of key points; introduction; clinical considerations and indications; anatomic considerations; technique; common abnormalities; pitfalls; case studies; references; and more
• Focus on common findings and pitfalls in every clinical chapter
• Case studies in each chapter

Contents

1. Training and program development
2. Equipment
3. Physics and image artifacts
4. Prehospital ultrasound: perspectives from four countries
5. Trauma
6. Cardiac
7. Addominal aortic aneurysm
8. Hepatobiliary
9. General surgery applications
10. Renal
11. Testicular
12. First-trimester pregnancy
13. Second- and third-trimester pregnancy
14. Gynecologic concepts
15. Deep venous thrombosis
16. Soft tissue
17. Ocular ultrasound
18. Pediatric applications
19. Vascular access
20. Additional ultrasound-guided procedures

Index

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