Overview
- Focuses specifically on ultrasound in prehospital and austere environments
- Discusses prolonged field care and extended austere operations
- Accessible not only to medical doctors but also non-physicians who use ultrasound
- Includes contributions from subject matter experts in prehospital, special operations, and austere environments
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Introduction and Background
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Part III
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Part IV
Keywords
- Disaster medicine and ultrasound
- Prehospital emergency medicine
- Prehospital and austere environments
- Prehospital ultrasound
- Ultrasound for diagnosis in out-of-hospital care
- Ultrasound in austere environments
- Ultrasound in military special operations
- Ultrasound in prehospital environments
- Ultrasound use in the wilderness
- Ultrasonography
About this book
The manual discusses the use of ultrasound for diagnosis in out-of-hospital care, advanced noninvasive monitoring of patients, and safety in performing procedures common to the prehospital and austere environment. As is the approach for prehospital education, the chapters are complaint based and not diagnosis based where applicable. Chapters cover ultrasound image interpretation and basic physics; common image adjustments to improve image quality; unique challenges found in urban prehospital environments, austere/wilderness environments, tactical environments, and military special operations environments; and initial training, quality improvement/assurance programs, and credentialing. It also includes a section on procedures such as pericardiocentesis, vascular access, cricothyroidotomy, and others specific to austere providers. The Manual of Austere and Prehospital Ultrasound is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, and medical students in emergency medicine, civilian and military EMS providers, and critical care flight paramedics and nurses.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Benjamin D. Nicholson, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Michael J. Vitto, DO, MS, FACEP
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Harinder S. Dhindsa, MD, MPH, FAEMS
Professor
Chair of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Manual of Austere and Prehospital Ultrasound
Editors: Benjamin D. Nicholson, Michael J. Vitto, Harinder S. Dhindsa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64287-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64286-0Published: 28 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64287-7Published: 27 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 321
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 188 illustrations in colour
Topics: Emergency Medicine, Ultrasound, Emergency Services