Ultrasound in Critical Care

Offers comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of ultrasound use in critical care to enable practitioners to use ultrasound for vascular and therapeutic procedures. The cardiac ultrasound chapters help readers assess and monitor s patient's cardiopulmonary status noninvasively.

This book is a complete guide to the use of ultrasound in critical care.

Beginning with an overview of ultrasound and its applications, the next chapters discuss basic physics of ultrasound, modes of ultrasonography, and Doppler imaging.

The following sections cover the use of ultrasound in different critical care situations including for vascular access, in acute respiratory distress syndrome, for cardiac evaluation, in neurocritical care, in the ICU, and more.

The book concludes with clinical case scenarios and guidance on infection control and legal issues in ICU sonography.

The comprehensive text is further enhanced by more than 300 ultrasound images, figures and tables to assist learning.

Key points

Comprehensive guide to the use of ultrasound in critical care
Includes discussion on basic physics and modes of ultrasound
Provides clinical case scenarios and guidance on infection control
Features more than 300 ultrasound images, figures and tables

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