Pocket tutor emergency imaging

<P>Titles in the <strong>Pocket Tutor</strong> series give practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with “on the go”, at a highly affordable price that puts them within reach of those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment. </p><p>Topics reflect information needs stemming from today’s integrated undergraduate & foundation courses:</p><ul><li>Common investigations (ECG, imaging, etc)</li><li>Clinical skills (surface anatomy, patient examination, etc.)</li></ul><ul><li>Clinical specialties that students perceive as too small to merit a textbook (psychiatry, renal medicine)</li></ul><p><strong>Key Points</strong></p><ul><li>Highly affordable price and convenient pocket size format – fits in back pocket!</li></ul><ul><li>Logical, sequential content: the first principles of emergency imaging, then a guide to understanding a <em>normal</em> image and the building blocks of an <em>abnormal</em> image, before describing specific clinical disorders</li></ul><ul><li>Clinical disorders are illustrated by high quality radiographs, ultrasounds, CTs and MRIs, with brief accompanying text that clearly identifies the defining feature of the image</li></ul><ul><li>Focuses on the conditions that medical students and foundation doctors are most likely to see and be tested on</li></ul><p> </p>

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 First principles of emergency imaging -- 1.1. Imaging modalities -- 1.2. Use of contrast media -- ch. 2 Understanding normal results -- 2.1. Plain radiographs -- 2.2. Ultrasound -- 2.3. CT -- 2.4. MRI -- ch. 3 Recognising abnormalities -- 3.1. Fractures -- 3.2. Inflammation and abscess -- 3.3. Effusion -- 3.4. Haemorrhage -- 3.5. Thrombosis -- 3.6. Tumours and mass lesions -- 3.7. Calcifications -- 3.8. Foreign bodies -- ch. 4 Gastrointestinal system -- 4.1. Key radiological anatomy -- 4.2. Trauma -- 4.3. Acute inflammation -- 4.4. Bowel obstruction -- 4.5. Acute mesenteric ischaemia -- 4.6. Acute gastrointestinal haemorrhage -- ch. 5 Genitourinary system -- 5.1. Key radiological anatomy -- 5.2. Renal trauma -- 5.3. Bladder trauma -- 5.4. Urinary tract calculi -- 5.5. Testicular torsion -- 5.6. Ovarian torsion -- ch. 6 Chest and vascular disease -- 6.1. Key radiological anatomy -- 6.2. Thoracic trauma -- 6.3. Acute aortic syndrome -- 6.4. Abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Contents note continued: 6.5. Deep vein thrombosis -- 6.6. Pulmonary embolism -- 6.7. Foreign bodies -- ch. 7 Head and neck -- 7.1. Key radiological anatomy -- 7.2. Facial trauma …