Point of Care Ultrasound for Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation Oxford Clinical Imaging Guides Series

The Oxford Clinical Imaging Guides are specifically designed to help doctors master imaging techniques. Each guide explains the principles and practice of using imaging in an easy-to-read, highly-illustrated, and authoritative manner. Point of Care Ultrasound for Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation is the definitive guide to using this indispensable clinical tool quickly, safely, and accurately to diagnose patients in emergency, acute, and critical care settings. With a practical focus on how to perform ultrasound and interpret images, this book demonstrates how the reader can use ultrasound safely in patient management to diagnose and manage shock, acute presentations, or the acute phases of key conditions. Extensively illustrated, this resource also comes with online access to 160 ultrasound clips and over 130 annotated ultrasound images. Written by expert educators, this book is mapped to the curriculum for the International Federation for Emergency Medicine to teach emergency and acute medics exactly what they need to know. This guide is highly relevant for the syllabi of Emergency Medicine colleges and associations in the USA, Canada, UK, Australasia and South Africa.

Dr Paul Atkinson is Professor in Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University and Saint John Regional Hospital, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the current chair of the departmental research committee. Paul is also a senior editor for CJEM, Chief Medical Officer for WorkSafeNB, and is currently VP for ultrasound research for the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). He is co-director of the Emergency Critical Care Ultrasound (ECCU) course.His international training included Queen's University Belfast, Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and Cambridge University Hospitals in the UK. He has over 80 peer reviewed publications, as well as being lead editor on two textbooks. Awards include the inaugural "Best in Class" award from Dalhousie University in 2012, andthe Canadian national Grant Innes Award for Emergency Medicine research in 2014. Current research interests include medical education, ultrasound, trauma systems and prevention, as well as quality in emergency medicine. Paul enjoys cycling and hiking in the wide-open spaces of our great country. Dr Justin Bowra is an emergency physician and emergency ultrasound tragic at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He has been performing bedside USsince 1999. He is the lead author of Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy (2nd ed), the ACEM representative on the ultrasound interest group of the International Federation of EmergencyMedicine, a member of the ACEM ultrasound subcommittee, a past chair of the CCPU Board of the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, and the CEO of My Emergency Dr. Hobbies include writing spectacularly unsuccessful film scripts and children's books. Professor Tim Harris was born in the UK but has spent around half his life overseas. He trained in Emergency Medicine and Intensive care medicine in Australia, and in pre-hospital Medicine in Australia and the UK. He has worked in 43 hospitals in 11 countries and mixed training with travel for volunteer work in Afr