First Aid Perioperative Ultrasound: Acute Pain Manual for Surgical Procedures
About this ebook
The applications of ultrasound are vast and cover the full spectrum of ultrasound guided regional anesthesia. This book concentrates and encompasses the most clinically relevant information as a first aid use of perioperative ultrasound. The chapters are concise, focusing on clinical presentations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis which will help you to deliver patient care in a timely and skillful manner. This compact book is packed with relevant, remarkable information related to ultrasound guided techniques and evidence-based protocols and latest guidelines for regional anesthesia, nerve blocks, and opioid-reducing analgesia to promote early recovery after surgery.
Concise, practical, and clinically applicable for various specialties, this book fills the unmet need for understanding the usefulness and techniques of ultrasound and its application in perioperative pain management, in particular regional anesthesia and nerve blocks. This handbook enables every physician, nurse, resident and all medical staff to understand the essentials of ultrasound and regional anesthesia, its evolving techniques, and the use of modern equipment to provide patient care safely.
About the author
Jinlei Li, MD PhD FASA
Associate Professor
Yale University
Department of Anesthesiology
Director of Regional Anesthesia Yale New Haven Health
New Haven, CT
Wei Jiang, MD, PhD
Professor, Chairman
Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai,
China
Nalini Vadivelu M.D.
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Yale University
Clinical Director of Ambulatory Pain YNHH
New Haven, CT
*Co-editor of Essentials of Pain Management and Essentials of Regional Anesthesia, both by Springer, Pocket pain medicine by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins and Perioperative pain medicine for orthopedics and spine surgery by Oxford Press.
