Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound

Vicki Noble received her MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. She completed a fellowship in emergency ultrasound at St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York and became a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer in 2004. She is a Fellow of the Amercian College of Emergency Physicians and is the Ultrasound Section subcommittee chair for education and practice standards. She has been awarded the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Excellence Award as well as being nominated for the Harvard University Medical School Teaching award and the Brian McGovern Award for Clinical Excellence at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has taught extensively in emergency ultrasound both in the United States and internationally. She is currently practicing in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound. Dr Bret Nelson has lectured on ultrasound throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is co-author of the Emergency Medicine Oral Board Review Illustrated (Cambridge University Press). He is a member of the national faculty of the Sonoran ultrasound course, The Difficult Airway Course, the international faculty of WINFOCUS, and has led a number of CME conferences on basic and advanced ultrasound. He has earned teaching awards from Harvard Medical School and Mount Sinai School of Medicine and was named Attending of the Year by the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine residents. The Mount Sinai Institute for Medical Education recently selected him as a Master Educator level member. Dr Nicholas Sutingco is a board-certified Staff Emergency Physician currently in community practice at the INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital and at The Fauquier Hospital in Virginia. He is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound QI/QA at these institutions. He received his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine, and completed his residency training in emergency medicine at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Hospital). He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is RDMS-eligible in 2007. He has taught courses in emergency ultrasound during his residency in Boston and currently within the INOVA (Northern Virginia) hospital system.

Introduction; 1. Fundamentals; 2. Focused assessment with sonography in trauma; 3. Echocardiography; 4. First trimester ultrasound; 5. Abdominal aortic aneurysm; 6. Renal and bladder ultrasound; 7. Gallbladder ultrasound; 8. Deep vein thrombosis; 9. Vascular access; 10. Procedural ultrasound; 11. Ocular ultrasound; 12. Chest ultrasound; 13. Musculoskeletal ultrasound; 14. Sinus ultrasound.