Practical guide to emergency ultrasound /

This 2nd edition of the Practical Guide to Emergency Ultrasound addresses your need for a practical, comprehensive, how-to book on ultrasound techniques in the emergency department, including new and expanded applications. Organized in an easy-to-navigate problem-based and symptom-based approach, ch...

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Other Authors: Cosby, Karen S. (Editor), Kendall, John L. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer business, 2014.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1469877120
9781469877129
1469830108
9781469830100
1469839334
9781469839332
1469830116
9781469830117
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The history and philosophy of emergency ultrasound
  • Fundamentals of ultrasound
  • Trauma
  • Echocardiography
  • Lung and thorax
  • Inferior vena cava
  • A Problem-based approach to resuscitation of acute illness or injury: resusciative ultrasound
  • Critical procedures for acute resuscitations
  • Right upper quadrant: liver, gallbladder, and billiary tree
  • Abdominal aorta
  • Kidneys
  • Bedside sonography of the bowel
  • Abdominal procedures
  • Pelvic ultrasound in the nongravid patient
  • First trimester pregnancy
  • Second and third trimester pregnancy
  • Lower extremity venous studies
  • Arterial emergencies
  • Scrotal emergencies
  • Skin and soft tissue
  • Musculoskeletal
  • Soft tissue and musculoskeletal procedures
  • Eye emergencies
  • Infections of the head and neck
  • Head and neck procedures
  • General pediatric problems
  • Pediatric abdominal emergencies
  • Pediatric procedures
  • Implementing ultrasound into the community emergency department
  • Implementing ultrasound into the academic emergency department
  • Implementing ultrasound in the prehospital setting
  • Implementing ultrasound in developing countries.