Making Sense of Echocardiography: A Hands-on Guide, Edition 3

· CRC Press
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324
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About this ebook

Echocardiography is one of the most useful and powerful diagnostic tools in the assessment of cardiac structure and function. It remains a rapidly expanding modality, with new techniques constantly developing and maturing. Building on the success of the second edition, the third edition of Making Sense of Echocardiography: A Hands-on Guide provides a timely overview for those learning echocardiography for the first time as well as an accessible handbook that experienced sonographers can refer to. The strong clinical focus and concentration on real-life scenarios make this book relevant in day-to-day practice. Key updates for this edition include the latest guidelines for the evaluation of diastolic function and pulmonary hypertension, and fully updated reference intervals throughout.

Key Features

• Covers not only the fundamentals of echocardiography including ultrasound physics, but also new technologies such as 3D echocardiography
• Provides a comprehensive approach for the echo trainee and serves as a useful reference for more seasoned echocardiographers
• Incorporates current guidelines and reference intervals throughout

Echocardiography is one of the most useful and powerful diagnostic tools in the assessment of cardiac structure and function. It remains a rapidly expanding modality, with new techniques constantly developing and maturing. Building on the success of the second edition, the third edition of Making...

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About the author

Andrew Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Head of Echocardiography, Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK

Dr Andrew R. Houghton studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in Nottingham and Leicester. He was appointed as consultant cardiologist at Grantham & District Hospital in Lincolnshire, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in non-invasive cardiac imaging, in particular echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI. He has been a member of the British Society of Echocardiography’s departmental accreditation committee, and a lecturer at BSE annual congresses.

Dr Houghton has co-authored a number of textbooks, including Making Sense of the ECG (now in its fifth edition) and its companion volume Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment, and is also a faculty member at the Medmastery online medical education website. Making Sense of the ECG has won several awards, including the Royal Society of Medicine’s Richard Asher prize and the British Medical Association’s Student Textbook Award, while Making Sense of Echocardiography was highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards.

Andrew Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Head of Echocardiography, Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK Dr Andrew R. Houghton studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in Nottingham and Leic...

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