Clark's Essential Guide to Clinical Ultrasound

This easy-to-understand pocketbook in the highly respected Clark’s stable of diagnostic imaging texts is an invaluable tool for students, sonographers and other ultrasound practitioners, providing practical guidance on clinical ultrasound procedures, summarising current relevant literature and professional body guidelines. The content is arranged by anatomical system and organ for ease of reference, with each section comprising a short introduction, the indications for the procedure, patient preparation, the imaging procedure itself, along with an image analysis, supported throughout by positioning photographs and clinical images. Clark’s Essential Guide to Clinical Ultrasound is ideal for all users of clinical ultrasound at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and will also provide a convenient distillation of the latest best practice and guidelines for sonographers, midwives, vascular technologists, ECG technologists, medical doctors, sports injury specialists, paramedics, and other health professionals.

Chapter 1. Principles of sonography Chapter 2. The upper abdominal organs Chapter 3. The renal tract Chapter 4. The male reproductive system Chapter 5. The GI tract Chapter 6. The endocrine system – thyroid and adrenal glands Chapter 7. The female reproductive system Chapter 8. Obstetric ultrasound Chapter 9. Breast ultrasound Chapter 10. The cardiovascular system Chapter 11. The respiratory system – lungs Chapter 12. The central nervous system – eye and brain Chapter 13. Musculoskeletal ultrasound Chapter 14. Emergency and interventional ultrasound Chapter 15. Additional technologies Index

Jan Dodgeon is a former Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the MSc in Advanced Medical Imaging (Radiology/Ultrasound) and Lead for the Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening National Education Programme, University of Salford, UK and Associate Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Gill Harrison is Professional Officer for Ultrasound at the Society and College of Radiographers, London and former Ultrasound Programme Director and Associate Professor at City, University of London, UK.