This 2nd edition of the Practical Guide to Emergency Ultrasound addresses your need for a practical, comprehensive, how-to book on ultrasound techniques in the emergency department, including new and expanded applications.\Organized in an easy-to-navigate problem-based and symptom-based approach, chapters cover many uses for ultrasound in the ED and proper ultrasound technique. Over 900 images, many in full color, illustrate key concepts and diagnoses, including the use of echocardiography in the ED and newer applications for imaging ocular, musculoskeletal injuries and the use of ultrasound in the management of undifferentiated hypotension and dyspnea. \FEATURES:\Chapters on newer applications of ultrasound including thoracic, inferior vena cava, musculoskeletal, and ocular imaging; newer and evolving applications for procedural guidance, including nerve blocks; new and\ highlighted content for Pediatric applications; and chapters on prehospital use, and use in resource-limited settings.\Entire section focusing on Ultrasound use in the Resuscitation of Acute Injury or Illness.\Over 900 images demonstrate key diagnoses and proper ultrasound technique \Over 175 online video clips that display more realistic three-dimensional views\More than 60 additional online-only images for several chapters.

The History and philosophy of emergency ultrasound -- Fundamentals of ultrasound -- Trauma -- Echocardiography -- Lung and thorax -- Inferior vena cava -- A Problem-based approach to resuscitation of acute illness or injury: resusciative ultrasound -- Critical procedures for acute resuscitations -- Right upper quadrant: liver, gallbladder, and billiary tree -- Abdominal aorta -- Kidneys -- Bedside sonography of the bowel -- Abdominal procedures -- Pelvic ultrasound in the nongravid patient -- First trimester pregnancy -- Second and third trimester pregnancy -- Lower extremity venous studies -- Arterial emergencies -- Scrotal emergencies -- Skin and soft tissue -- Musculoskeletal -- Soft tissue and musculoskeletal procedures -- Eye emergencies -- Infections of the head and neck -- Head and neck procedures -- General pediatric problems -- Pediatric abdominal emergencies -- Pediatric procedures -- Implementing ultrasound into the community emergency department -- Implementing ultrasound into the academic emergency department -- Implementing ultrasound in the prehospital setting -- Implementing ultrasound in developing countries.