Ultrasound in Emergency Care.
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 exa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2008.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780470755013 0470755016 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Ultrasound in Emergency Care; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Ultrasound in Emergency Care CD Rom; 1 History of ultrasound in emergencies; 2 The physics of ultrasound; 3 Image acquisition and artefacts; 4 Focussed assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST); 5 Ultrasound of the chest; 6 Ultrasound assessment of the abdominal aorta; 7 Abdominal emergencies; 8 Bedside ultrasound as an adjunct in the evaluation of critically ill patients; 9 Obstetric and gynaecological emergencies; 10 Soft tissue ultrasound; 11 Ultrasound for bony trauma; 12 Ultrasound for venous access.
- 13 Procedural applications of emergency bedside ultrasound14 Ultrasound in austere and mass casualty settings; 15 Training in emergency ultrasound; Index.