Ultrasound in Emergency Care [Hardcover]

Adam Brooks (Editor), Jim Connolly (Editor), Otto Chan (Editor)

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Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd edition (10 Nov 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0727917315
ISBN-13: 978-0727917317
Product Dimensions: 29.8 x 21.2 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,945,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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. The book will include a CD Rom of video clips, showing normal and abnormal scans, approximating to the real life situation.

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Ultrasound is rapidly becoming established as an essential diagnostic tool in emergency departments. The importance of accurate early diagnosis in severly injured and critically ill patients is obvious, and the relative simplicity and speed of ultrasound makes it ideal for these situatiuons.

This book is designed to meet the need for a practical basic text for people beginning to use ultrasound. Techniques and applications for emergency situations are clearly described by leading radiologists and emergency specialists from the UK and North America. Over 200 outstanding quality scans and interpretive line drawings are featured. Contents include:

History of US in emergencies
The physics of US
Image acquisition and artefacts
Focussed assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST)
US of the chest
US asessment of the abdominal aorta
Abdominal emergencies
Beside US as an adjunct in the evaluation of critically ill patients
Obstetric and gynaecological emergencies
Soft tissue US
US for bony trauma
US for venous access
Procedural applications of emergency beside US
US in austere and mass casualty settings
Training in emergency US

An added feature is the accompanying CD Rom, whcih includes the full text of the book and supplementary video clips.

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Since the discovery of the piezo-electric effect in the late 19th century, ultrasound (US) has evolved from a tool for military maritime echo-location into a diagnostic medical modality in its own right. Read the first page

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Just perfect for those interested from a radiology or FAST point-of-view 8 April 2007

By Snake

Format:Hardcover

The book and accompanying CD-ROM makes FAST scans perfect sense of this modality for junior SPR radiologists and non-radiologists interested or dealing with trauma alike. Not a small book, plenty of illustrations and examples.

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