Practical Ultrasound in Anesthesia for Critical Care and Pain Management: The Essential Point of Care Guide

by Philip M Hopkins (Editor), Massimo Lamperti (Editor), Clara A Lobo (Editor)

Overview

This new revised edition reflects the latest advances in clinical practice and remains an indispensable reference that covers important and debated aspects of ultrasound for the practicing anesthesiologist, such as big vascular access, frontal neck access, nerve blocks, and gastric evaluation. It presents the important clinical topics where ultrasound can guide an anesthetist , offers a practical and reliable guide to often debated aspects of clinical practice, and provides an authoritative resource for the anesthetist working in critical care and pain management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032608198
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	10/06/2025
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip Hopkins MBBS, MD, FRCA, holds the post of Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Leeds, based at St James’s Hospital. He is an Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist to the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Director of the UK Malignant Hyperthermia Investigation Unit, also based at St James’s.
Massimo Lamperti, MD, is the Institute Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He was previously a Consultant Anesthesiologist at the National Neurological Institute Besta, a quaternary neurological center in Milan, Italy, having completed fellowships in the USA and UK.
Clara A. Lobo, MS, is a Staff Physician in Pain Management, at the Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Table of Contents

1. Physics of Medical Ultrasound 2.Practical Applications — Getting the Best Out of Your Ultrasound Machine 3. Artificial Intelligence for Ultrasound in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine 4.Vascular access 5. Airway ultrasound 6.Regional Anaesthesia General Aspects 7.Neuraxial Regional Anaesthesia: Ultrasound Guidance for Spinal and Epidural Blocks  8A.Plan A Blocks (basic) for Upper limb (Interscalene and axillary brachial plexus blocks), Lower limb (Femoral, Sciatic and Adductor Canal blocks), and Trunk (Rectus sheath and serratus anterior blocks  8B.Peripheral nerve blocks: Advanced Plan B blocks  9.Transthoracic echocardiography: the basics 10.Lung ultrasound 11.Brain ultrasound 12.Point-of-care gastric ultrasound for estimation of aspiration risk 13. Deep Venous Thrombosis 14.Practical point of care ultrasound in anesthesia and critical care