Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound

Product Description
This is a practical and concise introduction to bedside emergency ultrasound. It covers the full spectrum of conditions diagnosed via this modality, both for guiding invasive procedures and for diagnosis in critical-care settings. It introduces the major applications for emergency ultrasound by using focused diagnostic questions and teaching the image acquisition skills needed to answer these questions. Images of positive and negative findings for each application (FAST, ECHO, etc.) are presented, as well as scanning tips for improved image quality. Each section contains a review of the literature supporting each application.
Book Description
This is a practical and concise introduction to bedside emergency ultrasound, covering the full spectrum of conditions diagnosed via this modality. It explores new directions and advanced applications for ultrasound and reviews the literature supporting each application. Each section provides tips on scanning techniques for improved image quality while examining images of positive and negative findings.

About the Author
Vicki Noble received her MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. She completed a fellowship in emergency ultrasound at St.Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York and became a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer in 2004. She is a Fellow of the Amercian College of Emergency Physicians and is the Ultrasound Section subcommittee chair for education and practice standards. She has been awarded the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Excellence Award as well as being nominated for the Harvard University Medical School Teaching award and the Brian McGovern Award for Clinical Excellence at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has taught extensively in emergency ultrasound both in the United States and internationally. She is currently practicing in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound.

Dr. Nicholas Sutingco is a board-certified Staff Emergency Physician currently in community practice at the INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital and at The Fauquier Hospital in Virginia. He is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound QI/QA at these institutions. He received his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine, and completed his residency training in emergency medicine at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham & Women's Hospital). He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is RDMS-eligible in 2007. He has taught courses in emergency ultrasound during his residency in Boston and currently within the INOVA (Northern Virginia) hospital system.

Dr Bret Nelson is Director of Emergency Ultrasound for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers. He has taught courses on ultrasound throughout Europe and the United States and received the Excellence in Teaching award at Mount Sinai.