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

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

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.