Diagnostic Imaging in Critical Care A Problem Based Approach

Diagnostic Imaging in Critical Care: A problem based approach provides an up to date educational resource to enable clinicians to interpret patients imaging investigations. The book is based on a series of problems about critically ill patients. The problems which are of varying degrees of difficulty, begin with a brief clinical history followed by an image or series of images questions are asked about the images and answers provided at the end of the chapter. There are two sets of radiological images for each problem – one set is in the book as part of the problem, and the second set on the DVD – a full set of high quality images such as a reporting radiologist would review (the same images seen on the digital X-ray system used in the author’s clinical practice).
Key Features

* Problems arranged in chapters based on anatomical region being imaged.
* Plain X-ray, CT, MRI and ultrasound images from the full spectrum of disease processes seen in the critically ill adult
* DVD with high quality images similar to those used in real life. Contains the entire set of problems.
* DVD allows reader to scroll through a series sequential images giving an appreciation of 3 D anatomy. Proven method of displaying images enhances learning.

Table of Contents

PREFACE


* Chapter 1 – CHEST Normal variants
* Traumatic aortic rupture
* Chest wall/lung trauma
* Bony trauma (including spinal) seen on CXR
* Diaphragmatic hernia
* White out of hemithorax (pleural fluid / tumour / consolidation / pneumonectomy / collapse)
* Pneumothorax
* Placement of lines and tubes
* Mitral valve disease
* Pulmonary hypertension
* Aortic coarctation
* Aortic aneurysm
* Dissecting aortic aneurysm
* Pulmonary embolus
* Percardial effusion
* Lung collapse
* Complications of cardiac surgery
* Pneumonia
* Empyema
* Lung abscess
* ARDS
* Chronic obstructive lung disease
* Incidental lung cancer
* Interstitial lung disease– reticular and nodular
* Alveolar opacity
* Ruptured oesophagus
* Surgical emphysema
* Perforated viscus
* Mediastinal mass
* Asbestosis


* Chapter 2 – ABDOMEN AND PELVISBiliary obstruction
* Gas in biliary tree
* Portal venous gas
* Liver trauma
* Free fluid in abdomen
* Renal trauma
* Perforated viscus
* Pelvic fracture
* Liver abscess
* Subphrenic abscess
* Splenic trauma
* Bladder rupture
* Abdominal aortic aneurysm
* Emphysematous pyelonephritis
* Ascites
* Small and large bowel obstruction
* Psoas abscess
* Pancreatitis and its complications
* Obstructed renal system
* Pyelonephritis
* Pack left in abdomen


* Chapter 3 – HEAD Subdural haematoma; acute and chronic
* Extradural haematoma
* Intracerebral haematomas
* Subarachnoid haemorrhage (with and without hydrocephalus)
* Herpes encephalitis
* Ischaemic infarcts
* Diffuse axonal injury
* Tumours
* Abscess
* Facial and skull fractures
* Subdural empyema
* Acute hydrocephalus +/- blocked shunt
* Sagittal sinus thrombosis
* Arnold Chiari malformation
* Sinusitis
* Cerebral atrophy


* Chapter 4 – SPINEFractures and dislocations
* Epidural abscess
* Spinal cord trauma
* Epidural haematoma
* Congenital anomalies
* Ankylosing spondylitis
* Osteomyelitis


* Chapter 5 – MISCELLANEOUSThyroid mass
* Neck abscess
* Air in knee joint
* Epiglottitis
* Laryngeal trauma
* Gas in soft tissues/clostridial infection
* Shoulder fracture on chest Xray