Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy
- 3rd Edition - March 27, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Justin Bowra, Russell E McLaughlin, Paul Atkinson, Jaimie L Henry
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 1 0 5 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 0 7 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 0 7 3 - 9
This simple, jargon-free text fits in your pocket, providing an ‘on-the-spot’ guide to clinician-performed ultrasound in the emergency department, intensive care unit or in the fi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis simple, jargon-free text fits in your pocket, providing an ‘on-the-spot’ guide to clinician-performed ultrasound in the emergency department, intensive care unit or in the field.
Written by an international team of experts and comprehensively updated in its third edition, Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy brings together in one volume the latest indications for focused ultrasound, including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The text is highly accessible and easy to use in an emergency. It is aimed at the rapidly expanding cohort of non-radiologist clinical sonographers who use focused ultrasound. However, its broad scope (for example using ultrasound in the rapid diagnosis of DVT) makes it an invaluable addition to the library of any doctor with an interest in the technique, whether in primary care or the hospital setting.
- Simple to read and follow
- Free of jargon
- Fast step-by-step guide to ultrasound procedures
- Clear diagrams
- Tips and pitfalls to avoid
- Multiple accompanying videos featuring examples of ultrasound in clinical practice
- New chapter on the use of ultrasound in small anatomical structures such as the eyes and testes
- New chapter on paediatric ultrasound
- Respiratory chapter updated to include COVID-19
Emergency Medicine (doctor, advanced nurse practitioners, paramedics)- developed and developing world
- Cover Image
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Video
- 1 Introduction
- What is ultrasound?
- What is point-of-care ultrasound?
- What it is not (you are not a radiologist!)
- First considerations
- Summary
- 2 How ultrasound works
- What is ultrasound?
- Types of ultrasound
- Producing the image
- The transducer
- Orientation
- Driving the ultrasound machine
- Artefacts
- Safety considerations
- Handy hints
- Summary
- 3 Abdominal aorta
- The question: is there an abdominal aortic aneurysm?
- Why use ultrasound?
- Clinical picture
- Before you scan
- The technique and views
- Handy hints
- What ultrasound can tell you
- What ultrasound cannot tell you
- Now what?
- Summary
- 4 Trauma and abdominal free fluid
- The question: is there free fluid?
- Why use ultrasound?
- Clinical picture
- Cautions and contraindications
- Before you scan
- Technique and views
- Handy hints
- What FAST can tell you
- What FAST cannot tell you
- Now what?
- Summary
- 5 Lung and thorax
- How can lung ultrasound help me?
- Why use ultrasound?
- What lung ultrasound can help you with
- What lung ultrasound cannot tell you
- Cautions and contraindications
- Technique and views
- What to look for
- Alveolar consolidation
- Pneumonitis and SARS/COVID-19
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- Now what?
- Summary
- 6 Focused cardiac ultrasound and shock protocols
- How can focused cardiac and shock ultrasound help me?
- Why use ultrasound?
- What focused cardiac ultrasound can tell you
- What focused cardiac ultrasound cannot tell you
- Technique and views
- Handy hints
- The heart
- Beyond focused cardiac scanning
- Suggested ultrasound approach to the patient with undifferentiated shock
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- Now what?
- Summary
- 7 Renal tract
- Introduction
- Why use ultrasound? Five good reasons
- Anatomy
- The technique, probe placement and views
- What ultrasound can tell you
- What ultrasound cannot tell you
- Handy hints and caveats
- Now what?
- Summary
- 8 The biliary tree and the gastrointestinal tract
- Introduction
- Biliary ultrasound: gall bladder and biliary tree
- The gastrointestinal tract
- Summary
- 9 Early pregnancy
- Introduction
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Why use ultrasound?
- What emergency ultrasound can tell you
- What emergency ultrasound cannot tell you
- The role of beta-human chorionic gonadotropin
- Clinical picture
- Before you scan
- Technique and views
- Findings
- Now what?
- Handy hints
- Summary
- 10 Ultrasound-guided procedures
- Why use ultrasound?
- Aseptic technique
- Ultrasound needle guidance technique
- Central venous cannulation
- Central venous cannulation using real-time ultrasound
- Out-of-plane technique
- Technique
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- In-plane technique
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- Thoracocentesis, pericardiocentesis and paracentesis
- What ultrasound can tell you
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- Suprapubic catheterisation
- Lumbar puncture
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- Endotracheal tube placement
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- Nasogastric tube placement
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- 11 Nerve blocks
- Why use ultrasound?
- Which blocks?
- Contraindications to regional anaesthesia
- Complications of regional anaesthesia
- Ultrasound appearance
- Probe and scanner settings
- Technique
- Notes on specific techniques
- Interfascial plane blocks
- Peripheral nerve blocks
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- Summary
- 12 Deep vein thrombosis
- The question: is there a deep vein thrombosis?
- Why use compression ultrasound?
- Anatomy
- Clinical picture
- Before you scan
- The technique and views
- Handy hints
- What three-point compression ultrasound can tell you
- What three-point compression ultrasound cannot tell you
- Now what?
- Summary
- 13 Musculoskeletal and soft tissues
- Glenohumeral joint dislocation
- Soft tissue infection
- Fracture diagnosis
- Knee arthrocentesis
- Ultrasound of foreign objects
- Summary
- 14 Use of ultrasound for small anatomic structures
- The eye and orbit
- What ultrasound can tell you
- The testicles and scrotum
- What emergency ultrasound can tell you
- What emergency ultrasound cannot tell you
- 15 Paediatric ultrasound
- Introduction: how is paediatric ultrasound different?
- How to use this chapter
- Paediatric lungs (see also Chapter 5)
- Paediatric abdomen (see also Chapter 8)
- Paediatric musculoskeletal
- Paediatric hip effusion
- Ultrasound-guided intravenous cannulation in infants and toddlers (see also Chapter 10)
- 16 Emergency ultrasound in prehospital medicine
- Why use ultrasound in this setting?
- EXAMPLES of resuscitative ultrasound in prehospital medicine
- Handy hints and pitfalls
- Before you scan
- Airway and breathing
- Airway assessment with ultrasound
- Breathing assessment with ultrasound
- Circulation
- Vascular access
- Musculoskeletal
- Appendix: Resources and further reading
- Chapter 5: Lung
- Chapter 6: Cardiac
- Chapter 9: Early pregnancy
- Chapter 14: Small parts
- Chapter 15: Paediatrics
- Index
- Edition: 3
- Published: March 27, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 272
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702081057
- eBook ISBN: 9780702080746
- eBook ISBN: 9780702080739
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Justin Bowra
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Emergency Medicine Training, Sydney Adventist Hospital; Senior Emergency Physician, Royal North Shore and Sydney Adventist Hospitals; Senior Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, AustraliaRM
Russell E McLaughlin
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Director, Emergency Department, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UKPA
Paul Atkinson
Dr Paul Atkinson is an Emergency Physician with a wide experience in the practice of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. His primary degrees are first class honours in physiology, and honours in medicine from The Queen's University of Belfast. His postgraduate training and higher specialist training in emergency medicine was completed in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Cambridge, England and Sydney, Australia. He is currently Director of Emergency Medicine Research at Saint John Regional Hospital in New Brunswick, Canada, and Associate Professor with the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University. He is involved in the development of the specialty of emergency medicine at local, regional and national levels. His areas of special interest include physiological scoring in trauma and critical illness, emergency paediatrics, clinical decision rules, the use of acute assessment tools including chest pain management pathways, and emergency ultrasound in trauma and shock.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Research Program Director, Emergency Medicine; Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine Research Committee,
Dalhousie University; Saint John, New Brunswick; Senior Editor, Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine.JH
Jaimie L Henry
Affiliations and expertise
Registrar in Intensive Care, Mater Hospital Sydney / Northern Beaches Hospital, New South Wales, Australia