First Aid Perioperative Ultrasound: Acute Pain Manual for Surgical Procedures

This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date reference guide for expert regional anesthesia providers, covering ultrasound basics, diagnosis, and treatment. It offers practical insights into perioperative pain control and emergency room pain management, with a focus on clinical presentations, differential diagnosis, and evidence-based protocols. Designed for physicians, nurses, residents, and medical staff, it enhances understanding of ultrasound and regional anesthesia, enabling safe and effective patient care.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 673 pages
Publication date: 03 March 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive handbook serves as an up-to-date, evidence-based quick reference guide for expert regional anesthesia providers. It also serves as an invaluable tool and a fantastic entry point for aspiring sonographers who wish to understand the basics of ultrasound, its applications for diagnosis and treatment, current guidelines and standards of care. The handbook presents in detail the challenges, risk stratification, techniques, and approaches to facilitate effective ultrasound use in perioperative pain control and emergency room pain management. The book adopts an outline, schematic approach to ensure easy understanding and retention.

The applications of ultrasound are vast and encompass 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 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.

Weight: 906g
Dimension: 127 x 203 x 45 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031212901
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023