This up-to-date, revised edition on ultrasound in anesthesia has now been expanded to
cover the important areas of pain management and critical care, and includes the new Royal
College of Anaesthetists' guidelines for using ultrasound in anesthesia and intensive care.
A comprehensive, practical guide, it explains the benefits of ultrasound for all essential practices, ranging from vascular access and
local anesthetic blocks in adults and children, to cardiac assessment, trauma and intensive care practice, pain management and
more. Additional resources include over 100 still and video clips, allowing the reader to view ultrasound sequences while reading
the relevant chapter. Written by ultrasound experts, this is the perfect introductory text for medical consultants and any trainee or
medical student who needs a step-by-step guide to how ultrasound works, how to use it themselves, how to get the best images and
when to ask a sonographer for help.
Key Features
Provides a practical approach to the use of ultrasound, enabling medical consultants as well as medical trainees to use ultrasound
in their own practice
Heavily illustrated with both still and video clips, to help the reader to recognise normal and abnormal patterns in the tissue being
examined and to train eye-hand skills required for ultrasound usage
Includes diagrams to aid pattern recognition of the relevant anatomical features
Contents
List of contributors;
Preface to the second edition;
Preface to the first edition;
Glossary;
1. Principles of medical ultrasound;
2. Ultrasound to aid vascular access;
3. Diagnostic echocardiolography;
4. The role of echocardiography in the
haemodynamically unstable patient in critical care
and the operating theatre;
5. Transesophageal diagnostic Doppler
monitoring;
6. Ultrasound in critical care;
7. Ultrasound and airway management;
8. The use of ultrasound in the traumatised
patient and the acute abdomen;
9. The use of ultrasound to aid local anesthetic
nerve blocks in adults;
10. US guided nerve blocks in children;
11. Cranial ultrasound in the newborn;
12. The use of ultrasound in acute gynecology and
pregnancy assessment;
13. Ocular ultrasonography;
14. Use of ultrasound in assessing soft tissue injury;
15. Use of ultrasound in pain management;
Index.