Echography in anesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine: A beginner's guide (eBook)

Frédéric Greco (Autor)

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2010 | 2010
XII, 87 Seiten
Springer Paris (Verlag)
978-2-8178-0016-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Are you looking for the essentials you need to learn the basics of echography for anesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine? This is what this book offers you! These few pages condense the essential knowledge to make getting started with echography in emergency situations easier. Ultrasounds are presented in great detail in order to facilitate and optimize the medical diagnosis process. As a doctor, you will first be placed in front of the machine in order to take the pictures that will serve to answer the questions asked. Just as the author did, you will realize that, when facing the patient with the machine, the best echographic examination is worth nothing without a good clinical examination. As a 'beginner's guide', this book also offers self-training procedure that lays the foundations of the 'FAST' learning method. This FAST Program of Echography allows you to learn the process by watching, feeling and talking. This training course is based on an ancient methodology that centers on the learning of a manual gesture: 'practice makes perfect'. This book will show you that you can quickly master this Program of Echography, and will in turn increase your self-confidence when taking care of your patients. Have a nice trip through the fascinating world of ultrasounds!

Inhalt

Title Page 
3 
Copyright Page 
4 
Table of Contens 
6 
Echography and emergency room 6
Preamble 7
Ultrasounds, a much reflected system 11
Introduction 11
Physics bases 11
Production and propagation of ultrasounds 11
Resolution 14
The probes 15
The echogenicity of tissues 16
Artifacts 17
Noise 18
Posterior reinforcement and acoustic shadowing 18
Reverberation 19
Artifact due to the beam width 19
Mirror image 20
Edge shadow 20
Anisotropy 21
The doctor in front of the machine 22
The echograph users' manual 22
Choosing the probe 23
Depth 23
Focus 24
Gain 24
Freeze 25
Print 25
Application 26
This way, please! 26
Details of industry 31
B-mode 31
The color Doppler mode 32
The doctor and the machine in front of the patient 36
Users' manual of the probe 36
Top and bottom 36
Right and left 37
The sections 37
The kidney, landmark of the abdomen 39
The doctor, the machine and the patient in front of the screen 52
What a lot of water! 52
In a fix 54
A little suds? 55
Don't push! 56
Out of breath 58
Charge! 60
Take cover, it’s going to explode! 61
Why are you coughing? 63
Did you think about jugulars and subclavians? 65
Where is it? 65
Is the center near the right or near the left? 70
Tossed by the waves but is not sunk! 71
The Gordian knot? 73
May a woman hide another? 74
It's not a good calculus 76
Conclusion 78
The essentialsto learn 79
Learning methods 80
Echography and emergency room 80
References 85
Self-training procedure 87
In order to fulfill your reading, put your hand on the probe. 87
STEP 1: Look for the right kidney and Morison's pouch 87
STEP 2: Find the left kidney 89
STEP 3: Find the bladder 90
STEP 4: Find the heart 91
STEP 5: Find the aorta 92
Echography report exemple 94
Acknowledgements 95

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2010
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 87 p.
• Verlagsort: Paris
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Anästhesie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Intensivmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Sonographie / Echokardiographie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Diagnosis • Echography • Emergency • Fast • Intensive care • self trainning • ultrasonography • Ultrasound
• ISBN-10: 2-8178-0016-8 / 2817800168
• ISBN-13: 978-2-8178-0016-5 / 9782817800165