Ultrasound in Anesthetic Practice with DVD-ROM

by Edited by Graham Arthurs , Barry Nicholls

• ISBN13: 9780521716239
• ISBN10: 0521716233
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Multimedia
• Copyright: 2009-01-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Ultrasound is now an accessible tool for all clinicians and healthcare professionals. It facilitates the safe and quick introduction of needles for many procedures as well as allowing rapid, non-invasive examination of organs.

Author Biography

Graham Arthurs is Consultant Anaesthetist, Anaesthetic Department, Maelor Hospital, Wrexham, UK. Barry Nicholls is Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset, UK.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Principles of medical ultrasound	p. 1
Ultrasound to aid vascular access	p. 16
Diagnostic echocardiography	p. 24
The role of echocardiography in the hemodynamically unstable patient in critical care and the operating theater	p. 52
Transesophageal diagnostic Doppler monitoring	p. 58
Use of ultrasound in the intensive care unit	p. 67
Use of ultrasound in the traumatized patient and the acute abdomen	p. 76
Use of ultrasound to aid local anesthetic nerve blocks in adults	p. 90
Use of ultrasound to aid local anesthetic nerve blocks in children	p. 128
Cranial ultrasound in the newborn	p. 146
The use of ultrasound in acute gynecology and pregnancy assessment	p. 158
Ultrasound in ophthalmic anesthesia	p. 169
Use of ultrasound in assessing soft tissue injury	p. 178
Index	p. 196
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