Ultrasound scanners are available in an increasing number of clinical areas.They are excellent for identifying the presence of a pleural effusion andthe optimal site for aspration. The National Patient Safety Agencyrecommends their use prior to insertion of chest drains for pleuraleffusions.This book is for clinicians who want to start using portable ultrasoundscanners to look at the chest. It will teach you some basic physics and howto adjust the controls on the scanner. Then you will learn how to recognisea pleural effusion.When you are proficient at identifying pleural effusions, you can start tolook for some of the other clinical conditions which are shown in the manyillustrations in this book. There are examples of the artefacts which maycatch you out, with diagrams to explain how they are caused.Once you have started to use ultrasound at the bedside, you will not want toundertake "blind" pleural aspirations ever again. Competency in thistechnique is becoming the norm for those involved in managing patients withdisease of the chest; this book will help you along that road.
- ISBN: 978-1-90476-142-6
- Editorial: Nottingham University Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 68
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés