Essential Echocardiography, 2nd Edition
by Alisdair Ryding, BSc, MBChB, MRCP, PhD
Paperback
ISBN:
9780702045523
Copyright:
2013
Publication Date:
05-17-2013
Page Count:
272
Imprint:
Churchill Livingstone
List Price:
$84.95
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- The text covers the basic concepts of how ultrasound works and looks at practical aspects of how to perform an echo.
- It examines both normal function as well as the whole range of pathologies encountered in day-to-day clinical practice.
- There is particular emphasis on how to report your interpretation of the echo findings.
- The book is highly illustrated throughout with real examples many of which are available to view in dynamic form on the Expert Consult platform, thus offering a comprehensive library of echo movies.
- The text is fully up to date with the latest recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography as well as equivalents from the British Society of Echocardiography
- 100 self-assessment cases on the Expert Consult platform test knowledge and interpretation skills and are aimed at BSE accreditation exam level
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- The full text of the book is available on the Expert Consult platform
- There are new chapters on 3D echo and right ventricular pathologies.
- The text has been fully updated and there are more than 200 new images to illustrate state-of-the-art echo.
- The presentation of the echo images has been simplified with the addition of a fold-out flap on the book referencing the key areas of anatomical detail.
- The text now includes the latest recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography as well as the equivalents from the British Society of Echocardiography
Trainees in cardiology, echocardiography/cardiac physiology, anaesthetics, intensive care, general medicine, acute medicine, accident and emergency and cardiothoracic surgery.
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- Getting started
- The cardiac chambers
- The valves
- Inside and outside the heart
- Approach to examining and reporting
- Appendices of normal values and useful formulae.
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Alisdair Ryding, BSc, MBChB, MRCP, PhD, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist,Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Norwich, UK; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, James Paget University Hospital, UK