Ultrasound in Emergency Care

by Editor: Adam Brooks (Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK); Editor: Jim Connolly; Editor: Otto Chan (London Independent Hospital, London, UK)

• ISBN13: 9780727917317
• ISBN10: 0727917315
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: B M J Books

Summary

Ultrasound in Emergency Care is a practical guide to the use of ultrasound and how to interpret the scans, aimed specifically at emergency physicians and staff. This is recognised as an essential skill in emergency medicine, and this book will provide the means to learn it, with question led text and many illustrations of real examples. An accompanying CD ROM provides video clips, showing normal and abnormal scans, approximating to the real life situation.

Author Biography

Adam Brooks, University of Nottingham

Jim Connolly, Newcastle General Hospital

Otto Chan, London Independent Hospital

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Ultrasound in Emergency Care CD Rom	x
History of ultrasound in emergencies	1	(3)
Ben Davies
Adam Brooks
The physics of ultrasound	4	(6)
Jim Connolly
Image acquisition and artefacts	10	(15)
Otto Chan
Focussed assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST)	25	(10)
Adam Brooks
M Gage Oschner
Ultrasound of the chest	35	(7)
Douglas R Hamilton
Ashot Sargysan
Scott A Dulchavsky
Ultrasound assessment of the abdominal aorta	42	(5)
Simon England
Abdominal emergencies	47	(12)
Ali Naraghi
Otto Chan
Bedside ultrasound as an adjunct in the evaluation of critically ill patients	59	(17)
Anthony J Dean
Obstetric and gynaecological emergencies	76	(10)
Andrew Loughney
Stephen Stirgess
Soft tissue ultrasound	86	(10)
Robert Cooper
Dominic Barron
Ultrasound for bony trauma	96	(5)
Adam Brooks
James L Williams
Ultrasound for venous access	101	(13)
Richard G McWilliams
Christopher Boyd
Procedural applications of emergency bedside ultrasound	114	(21)
Anthony J Dean
Daniel K Vining
Ultrasound in austere and mass casualty settings	135	(6)
Leonard J King
Training in emergency ultrasound	141	(6)
Susie Hewitt
Michael R Marohn
David Wherry
Index	147