Main description:

Key Features

* Sets the standard for training and competency of this emerging, yet scientifically approved non-invasive technique of ultrasound with all the essential information on how to perform ultrasound and interpret the images obtained.
* Features clear and didactic images demonstrating echo findings in various situations along with videos of diaphragmatic ultrasound offering a unique "window" on mechanically ventilated patients, allowing to take important clinical decisions on ventilatory modes and assistance by pulmonologists, critical care specialists, thoracic surgeons, emergency medicine specialists as well as trainees.
* Includes a chapter on pediatric ultrasound along with ultrasound of other respiratory muscles (i.e., intercostal and abdominal) which is emerging as a useful complementary tool.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

1. Anatomy, Physiology and Dysfunction of the diaphragm

2. Ultrasound basics

Part II: Diaphragm ultrasound: technique

3. Diaphragmatic excursion

4. Diaphragmatic thickness and thickening

Part III: Applications of diaphragm ultrasound

5. Diaphragm ultrasound in respiratory disorders and diaphragm paralysis

6. Assessment of diaphragmatic dysfunction in mechanically ventilated patients

7. Diaphragm Ultrasound during weaning from mechanical ventilation

8. Diaphragmatic ultrasound after thoracic and abdominal surgery

9. Diaphragm ultrasound in patients with neuromuscular disorders

10. Other applications of diaphragm ultrasound: trauma, malignancies, ultrasound guided procedures

Part IV: New perspectives

11. Ultrasound assessment of the accessory respiratory muscles

12. Tissue Doppler Imaging of the diaphragm

13. Ultrasound of the diaphragm in pediatric patients