Featuring over 700 illustrations, this book is a practical, visual guide to performing and interpreting ultrasound and using ultrasound findings for making clinical decisions in the emergency department. Consistently formatted chapters cover both common and less common uses of ultrasound in the emergency department. Each chapter includes clinical applications, anatomy and landmarks, image acquisition, pathology, clinical decision making, incidental findings, and clinical examples. High-quality images include patient photographs demonstrating the correct probe placement and large ultrasound images allowing findings to be easily seen. Labels on ultrasound scans and side-by-side anatomic drawings help readers locate the key parts of all images.
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1. The History and Philosophy of Emergency Ultrasound 1 Stephen R. Hoffenberg 2. Emergency Ultrasound Program Development 15 Stephen R. Hoffenberg 3. Fundamentals of Ultrasound 27 John S. Rose and Aaron E. Bair 4. Trauma 43 Vivek S. Tayal and John L. Kendall 5. Echocardiography 93 Christopher L. Moore and Henry Lin 6. First Trimester Pregnancy 123 Kristen Nordenholz, Jean Abbott, and John Bailitz 7. General Gynecology 161 Jeanne Jacoby and Michael Heller 8. Liver, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tree 183 Karen S. Cosby and John L. Kendall 9. The Aorta 219 Carrie Tibbles and Adam Barkin 10. Renal Ultrasound 237 Michael Blaivas and Matthew L. Lyon 11. Lower Extremity Venous Studies 255 J. Christian Fox and JoAnne McDonough 12. Testicular Ultrasound 267 Paul R. Sierzenski and Stephen J. Leech 13. Emergent Procedures 285 Robert S. Park, Jeffrey C. Metzger, and Susan B. Promes 14. Soft Tissue 331 Bradley W. Frazee and Douglas A. E. White Index 355
