Main description:

This easy-to-understand pocketbook in the highly respected Clark's stable of diagnostic imaging texts is an invaluable tool for students, sonographers and other ultrasound practitioners, providing practical guidance on clinical ultrasound procedures, summarising current relevant literature and professional body guidelines.

The content is arranged by anatomical system and organ for ease of reference, with each section comprising a short introduction, the indications for the procedure, patient preparation, the imaging procedure itself, along with an image analysis, supported throughout by positioning photographs and clinical images.

Clark's Essential Guide to Clinical Ultrasound is ideal for all users of clinical ultrasound at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and will also provide a convenient distillation of the latest best practice and guidelines for sonographers, midwives, vascular technologists, ECG technologists, medical doctors, sports injury specialists, paramedics, and other health professionals.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Principles of sonography

Chapter 2. The upper abdominal organs

Chapter 3. The renal tract

Chapter 4. The male reproductive system

Chapter 5. The GI tract

Chapter 6. The endocrine system - thyroid and adrenal glands

Chapter 7. The female reproductive system

Chapter 8. Obstetric ultrasound

Chapter 9. Breast ultrasound

Chapter 10. The cardiovascular system

Chapter 11. The respiratory system - lungs

Chapter 12. The central nervous system - eye and brain

Chapter 13. Musculoskeletal ultrasound

Chapter 14. Emergency and interventional ultrasound

Chapter 15. Additional technologies

Index