Emergency bedside ultrasound assessment is well established for adult patients, but has only recently been introduced into everyday clinical practice for the care of pediatric patients. Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound is a concise, practical text which explains the principles of ultrasound, its diagnostic application in all organ systems and its use as a procedural adjunct. Both well-established and innovative applications are described, assisting the practitioner in incorporating ultrasound into daily practice, facilitating patient care and decreasing radiation exposure. Case studies and abundant illustrations enable the reader to study the appropriate techniques in detail and learn from real examples from the pediatric emergency department and intensive care unit. Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound is the first comprehensive bedside ultrasonography resource focusing on pediatric patients and is essential reading not only for pediatric emergency medicine subspecialists but for all emergency physicians, intensivists/critical care physicians and pediatricians.

Review

“This valuable book is packed with a lot of information in textual and graphic form … It is exhaustive in its coverage, and each chapter is packed with well-organized and expertly-written sections, with a large number and variety of images including fine-line, detailed anatomic drawings, photos of patients being diagnosed and receiving care, and of course, numerous images through ultrasound. Any pediatrician or his-her assistant should add this book to their library.”
Nano Khilnani, Biz India

Book Description

The first comprehensive bedside ultrasonography resource focusing on pediatric patients, Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound explains the principles of ultrasound, its diagnostic application in all organ systems and its use as a procedural adjunct. Essential reading for pediatric emergency physicians, adult emergency physicians, intensivists/critical care physicians and pediatricians.

Contents

Chapter 1 Physics and “knobology”
Chapter 2 Getting started
Chapter 3 Ultrasound in austere environments
Chapter 4 The extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (E-FAST]
Chapter 5 Focused cardiac ultrasound
Chapter 6 Pulmonary ultrasound
Chapter 7 Inferior vena cava, aorta assessment
Chapter 8 HEENT (headr ears, eyesr noser throat]: ocular, sinusr neck ultrasound
Chapter 9 Renal, bladder
Chapter 10 The pediatric abdomen
Chapter 11 Hepatobiliary
Chapter 12 Male genitourinary: scrotal painr swelling
Chapter 13 Pelvic obstetrics
Chapter 14 Pelvic: gynecology
Chapter 15 Vascular access
Chapter 16 Bladder ultrasound for catheterization and suprapubic aspiration
Chapter 17 Ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture
Chapter 18 Soft tissue applications
Chapter 19 Orthopedics: extremity fracturesr reductionsr and arthrocentesis
Chapter 20 Peripheral nerve blocks
Chapter 21 Pericardiocentesisr thoracentesisr and paracentesis
Chapter 22 Cutting-edge procedures: the airway
Chapter 23 Neonates and infants
Chapter 24 The critically ill: respiratory and hemodynamic support