Radiology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Richard Hopkins, Carol Peden, Sanjay Ghandi9781841101194, 1841101192

As more anaesthetists become involved in critical care and other areas of perioperative management, they need to be able to request radiological investigations, and interpret the results quickly and accurately. This concise and fully illustrated book covers the key aspects of imaging that are of relevance to anaesthetists and intensivists, and examines all imaging modalities that are likely to be called upon (plain film, CT, MRI etc.). The book is organised logically by body system for ease of access to information and is written by a team of radiologists and anaesthetists, providing a dual perspective.

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Table of contents :
Team@Lib……Page 0
Cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
Acknowledgements……Page 8
Contributors……Page 10
Introduction……Page 12
The Final examination……Page 14
Competency-based training and assessment……Page 15
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain
and Ireland [1]……Page 18
Task Force on Preanaesthetic Evaluation of
the American Society of Anaesthesiologists [3]……Page 19
1 Imaging the chest……Page 22
How to read a chest X-ray……Page 23
The ‘normal’ chest X-ray in examination vivas……Page 28
Case illustrations: plain films and CT……Page 29
2 Imaging the abdomen……Page 98
Plain abdominal X-rays……Page 99
Case illustrations: plain films and CT……Page 101
3 Trauma radiology……Page 146
Chest trauma: case illustrations……Page 147
Blunt abdominal and pelvic trauma: case illustrations……Page 158
4 The cervical spine……Page 184
Introduction: clearing the cervical spine……Page 185
Non-traumatic conditions affecting the cervical spine……Page 200
Trauma of the cervical spine……Page 216
5 CT……Page 236
Principles of CT image formation……Page 237
Principles of interpreting CT……Page 240
Case illustrations……Page 241
6 Anaesthesia in the radiology
department with particular
reference to MRI and
interventional radiology……Page 278
Anaesthesia in the radiology department……Page 279
MRI: principles of image formation……Page 282
MRI: anaesthetic monitoring……Page 286
MRI: case illustrations……Page 291
Interventional procedures: case illustrations……Page 303
7 Ultrasound and
intensive care……Page 322
Ultrasound imaging: principles of image formation……Page 323
Applications of ultrasound for patients on
intensive care units……Page 325
Ultrasound imaging: case illustrations……Page 333
Index……Page 342