Emergency and Clinical Ultrasound Board Review

Chapter 1 Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST)
Caroline Brandon, Jaime Moran, Dana Sajed, and Tarina Kang

Chapter 2 Focused Echocardiography
Connie Yu, Rachel Liu, and Vi Am Dinh

Chapter 3 Physics and Knobology
Claire Abramoff, John Lemos, Usama Khalid, Claire Abramoff, and Sierra Beck

Chapter 4 Resuscitative Ultrasound
Igor Barjaktarevic

Chapter 5 Thoracic Ultrasound
Jacob Avila and Calvin Huang

Chapter 6 Aorta Ultrasound
Zachary Soucy, Cecily Reynolds, Nicholas Weinberg, and David Haughey

Chapter 7 Hepatobiliary Ultrasound
Cori Poffenberger, Viveta Lobo, Kenton Anderson, and Laleh Gharahbaghian

Chapter 8 Renal Ultrasound
Amir Aminlari, Michael A. Macias, Virag J. Shah, and Anthony J. Medak

Chapter 9 Pregnancy Ultrasound
Maria Tamborski and Sarah Medeiros

Chapter 10 Gynecological Ultrasound
Dasia Esener and Dalla Betta

Chapter 11 Soft Tissue Ultrasound
Yiju Teresa Liu, Lilly Bellman, Jackie Shibata, and Sheetal Khiyani

Chapter 12 Ocular Ultrasound
Stephanie Tseeng, Sharmin Kalam, and S. Zan Mehtab Jafry

Chapter 13 Procedural Ultrasound
Poornima Yeechoor, Emily Lovallo, Andrea Dreyfuss, and Arun Nagdev

Chapter 14 Airway and ENT
Shadi Lahham, Tushank Chadha, Michelle Bui, Sophia Spann, and Abdulatif Gari

Chapter 15 Deep Venous Thrombosis
Michael I. Prats, David P. Bahner, Creagh T. Boulger, and Michael R. Go

Chapter 16 Testicular Ultrasound
Delia L. Gold, Michael I. Prats, Fara Bellows, and Creagh T. Boulger

Chapter 17 Bowel and Appendix Ultrasound
Lindsey Ball and J. Matthew Fields

Chapter 18 Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Raffi Salibian and Antoinette Roth

Emergency and Clinical Ultrasound Board Review is a comprehensive guide for preparing for the Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography or Critical Care Echocardiography board exams, and for residents preparing for in-training examinations in ultrasound. The text consists of over 500 multiple-choice questions, organized into 18 chapters covering ultrasound topics such as physics, eFAST, echocardiography, thoracic, aorta, hepatobiliary, renal, pregnancy, soft tissue, ocular, procedural, airway, ENT, DVT, testicular, abdominal, and musculoskeletal applications. This is a multi-specialty work, with contributors representing the fields of emergency medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, critical care, and radiology. Chapters include questions, answers with detailed explanations and references to primary or landmark articles to help better navigate a standardized exam. Questions are written in a case-based format that emulates the ABEM and NBE board exams, and are supplemented by over 800 figures, tables, boxes, and online videos.

• Contains over 500 multiple choice questions written in a case-based format that emulates the ABEM exams
• Each of the 18 chapters offer test taking tips to help readers better navigate standardized exams
• Questions and answers are supplemented by over 800 figures, tables, boxes, and online videos

Author Information

Alan T. Chiem, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician with specialty training in point-of-care ultrasound. He is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in Sylmar, CA. He has been Director of Ultrasound for the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCLA since 2012.