Main description:

This book offers a comprehensive review on the last development in the management and the treatment of acute and life-threatening conditions. Written by leading experts in the field, this book will help the clinician to understand the clinical problems and to select the methodological and technical options that will ensure prompt and effective response and correct interpretation of the clinical findings. This book is richly illustrated and will serve as unique source of information for radiologists and other specialists including neuroradiologists, surgeons, cardiologists, angiologists and gastroenteologists.

Contents:

Emergency Radiology: Role of Imaging: Role of Imaging in the Management of the Polytrauma Victim.- Role of 3D Imgaging in the Emergency Room.Traumatic Injuries: Imaging and Intervention: Radiological Hemostatic Intervention at Admission.-Imaging and Intervention in Post-Traumatic Complications (Delayed Intervention).- Imaging of Head Injuries.- Imaging of Facial Injuries,- Imaging of Spinal Injuries.- Imaging of Thoracic Injuries,- Vascular Injuries of the Thorax: Multi-Detector Row CT and 3D Imaging.- Imaging of Abdominal and Pelvic Injuries.-Imaging and Intervention of Large Arterial Trauma.- Imaging of Pelvic Fractures.-Imaging of Peripheral Musculoskeletal Injuries.-Non-Traumatic Neurologic Emergencies: Imaging and Intervention: Imaging of Cerebral Ischemia.-Neuroradiological Emergency Inteventions.- Non-Traumatic Thoracic Emergencies: Imaging and Intervention: Acute Abdominal pain: Diagnostic Strategies.- Imaging of Acute Intestinal Obstruction.- Imaging and Intervention in Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage and Ischemia.-Imaging and Intervention in Sepsis.-Imaging and Intevention in Acute Biliary Conditions.-Imaging and Interbention in Acute Pancreatic Conditions.-Imaging and Intervention in Acute Urinary Conditions.- Non-Traumatic Vascular Emergencies: Imaging and Intervention: Imaging and Intervention in Acute Arterial Conditions.- Imaging and Intervention in Acute Venous Occlusion.- Management of Occluded Hemodialysis Shunts and Venous Access.- Imaging Pediatric Emergencies: Neurological Emergencies.- Thoracic Emergencies.-Non-Traumatic Abdominal Emergencies.