Critical Care Ultrasound Manual

Critical Care Ultrasound Manual is a concise step-by-step guide on the assessment of ultrasounds. It trains critical care physicians in applying Rapid Assessment by Cardiac Echo (RACE) and Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) to sonography principles. Animated video clips of procedures assist the reader in comprehending the content covered in the manual. By Anthony McLean, B Sc(Hons), MB ChB, MD, FRACP, FCICM, FCSANZ, Professor and Head of Discipline, Intensive Care Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia Director of Intensive Care, Nepean Hospital, Sydney, Australia Director, Cardiovascular Ultrasound Laboratory, Nepean Hospital Director, Nepean Institute Critical Care Education and Research Member, Boards of DDU(Critical Care Ultrasound) and CCPU(Critical Care Echo), Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine and Stephen Huang, BSc, MSc, PhD, CertEd, DipLaw(LPAB), GDLP, CRFS, AMS(Cardiac), Associate Professor, Intensive Care Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia Principal Research Scientist, Intensive Care Unit, Nepean Hospital, Sydney, Australia Director, Nepean Institute of Critical Care Education and Research Member, Curriculum Board for CCPU (Critical Care Echo), Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Basic 2D ultrasound physics Chapter 2: Knobology Chapter 3: Common ultrasound artefacts in 2D imaging Chapter 4: Transthoracic echocardiogram - views and anatomy Chapter 5: RACE outline Chapter 6: Left heart assessment Chapter 7: Right heart assessment Chapter 8: Pericardial assessment Chapter 9: Intravascular volume (preload assessment) Chapter 10: Other pathologies Chapter 11: Vascular ultrasound: rapid Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) assessment Chapter 12: Ultrasound-guided vascular access Chapter 13: Lung and pleural ultrasound Chapter 14: The standard FAST protocol Chapter 15: Critical care abdominal ultrasound Appendix A: Basic Doppler Physics Appendix B: Normal reference values for transthoracic echocardiography Appendix C: RACE study checklist and sample report Appendix D: Critical care ultrasound level of competency