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.
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.
1. Physics of Medical Ultrasound- Nicholas Record, Alasdair Taylor, and
James S. Bowness
2. Practical Applications: Getting the Best Out of Your
Ultrasound Machine- Ronald Silva and Clara Lopes
3. Artificial Intelligence
for Ultrasound in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine- Fiona H.
Watson, Alasdair Taylor, and James S. Bowness 4.Vascular Access- Massimo
Lamperti and Boris Tufegdzic
5. Airway Ultrasound - Massimiliano Sorbello and
Stefano Falcetta 6.Regional Anaesthesia General Aspects- Clara A. Lobo and
Louise Moran 7.Neuraxial Regional Anaesthesia: Ultrasound Guidance for Spinal
and Epidural Blocks - Sree Kolli and Hari Kalagara 8A.Plan A Blocks (Basic)
Blocks for Upper and Lower Llimb, and Trunk - Maria Paz Sebastian, Lara
Ribeiro, and Louise Moran 8B.Advanced Plan B Nerve Blocks - Steve Coppens
9.Transthoracic Echocardiography: The Basics -Guillaume Salama, Victor
Beaucote, and Antoine Vieillard-Baron 10.Lung uUtrasound - Giovanni
Volpicelli and Serena Rovida 11.Brain Ultrasound - Manfredi Pusateri, Andrea
Berardino, and Chiara Robba 12.Point-of-Care Gastric Ultrasound for
Estimation of Aspiration Risk - Amit Jain
13. Deep Venous Thrombosis -
Daniele Guerino Biasucci, Roberto Polidoro, and Luigi Vetrugno 14.Training,
Certification of Proficiency and Medicolegal Concerns for Point-of-Care
Ultrasound in Anesthesia and Critical Care - William P. Qiao, Stephen C.
Haskins, and Yuriy S. Bronshteyn
Philip Hopkins MBBS, MD, FRCA, holds the post of Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Leeds, based at St Jamess Hospital. He is an Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist to the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Director of the UK Malignant Hyperthermia Investigation Unit, also based at St Jamess. Massimo Lamperti, MD, is the Institute Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He was previously a Consultant Anesthesiologist at the National Neurological Institute Besta, a quaternary neurological center in Milan, Italy, having completed fellowships in the USA and UK. Clara A. Lobo, MS, is a Staff Physician in Pain Management, at the Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
