Full Description
This new revised edition reflects the latest advances in clinical practice and remains an indispensable reference that covers important and debated aspects of ultrasound for the practicing anesthesiologist, such as big vascular access, frontal neck access, nerve blocks, and gastric evaluation. It presents the important clinical topics where ultrasound can guide an anesthetist , offers a practical and reliable guide to often debated aspects of clinical practice, and provides an authoritative resource for the anesthetist working in critical care and pain management.
Contents
1. Physics of Medical Ultrasound 2.Practical Applications — Getting the Best Out of Your Ultrasound Machine 3. Artificial Intelligence for Ultrasound in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine 4.Vascular access 5. Airway ultrasound 6.Regional Anaesthesia General Aspects 7.Neuraxial Regional Anaesthesia: Ultrasound Guidance for Spinal and Epidural Blocks 8A.Plan A Blocks (basic) for Upper limb (Interscalene and axillary brachial plexus blocks), Lower limb (Femoral, Sciatic and Adductor Canal blocks), and Trunk (Rectus sheath and serratus anterior blocks 8B.Peripheral nerve blocks: Advanced Plan B blocks 9.Transthoracic echocardiography: the basics 10.Lung ultrasound 11.Brain ultrasound 12.Point-of-care gastric ultrasound for estimation of aspiration risk 13. Deep Venous Thrombosis 14.Practical point of care ultrasound in anesthesia and critical care
