Pocket Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound

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McGraw Hill Professional, Oct 22, 2010 - Medical - 608 pages
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Improve your ability to perform and interpret emergency ultrasound exams with this unique pocket atlas

Featuring more than 400 ultrasound images, dozens of illustrations, and concise, bulleted text, Pocket Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound allows you to instantly compare and contrast your real-time images with those identified here. You will also find valuable how-to guidance covering essentials such as probe placement, patient positioning, and proper settings along with anatomical drawings that help you visualize affected organs.

You’ll also find:

  • Clinical Considerations
  • Clinical Indications
  • Anatomic Considerations
  • Technique and Normal Findings
  • Tips to Improve Image Acquisition
  • Common and Emergent Abnormalities
  • Pitfalls

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Contents

Chapter 1 Ultrasound Basics
1
Chapter 2 Trauma
29
Chapter 3 Cardiac
61
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Pocket Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound
Robert Reardon,O. John Ma,James Mateer
No preview available - 2010

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abdominal aorta abdominal aortic aneurysm ANATOMIC CONSIDERATIONS arrow artery artifact axis bladder cardiac cephalad CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS CLINICAL INDICATIONS color Doppler compression contributed by Lori coronal view Corresponding ultrasound image cyst distal duct echogenic Ectopic pregnancy Emergency Ultrasound exam femoral nerve femoral vein Figure four-chamber view free fluid gallbladder gestational sac Gulfcoast Ultrasound hepatic hydronephrosis hyperechoic hypoechoic inferior vena cava lateral decubitus position left atrium left ventricle liver Longitudinal view Lori Green Lori Sens M-mode midline sagittal mitral valve needle tip ofthe ovary Parasternal long-axis view patient patient’s right pelvic pericardial effusion Photo contributed PITFALLS placenta previa pleural popliteal popliteal vein portal vein Probe marker Probe position reading in Emergency renal right kidney right ventricle Rotate the probe sagittal view Sens and Lori sonogram spinous processes structures Subcostal thrombus TIPS TO IMPROVE tissue Transabdominal transducer Transvaginal image Transverse view ultrasound guidance uterus visualized wall yolk sac

About the author (2010)

Robert F. Reardon, MD
Ultrasound Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

James R. Mateer, MD, RDMS
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Staff Physician
Emergency Medicine
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Waukesha, Wisconsin

O. John Ma, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon

Bibliographic information

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TitlePocket Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound
Atlas Series
AuthorsRobert F. Reardon, O. John Ma, James R. Mateer
PublisherMcGraw Hill Professional, 2010
ISBN0071717617, 9780071717618
Length608 pages
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Medical / Emergency Medicine
  
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