num_pages: 175
description: Here's a concise and easy-to-read introductory text that provides a foundation in the fundamental principles and practical application of emergency radiology. This new edition to W.B. Saunders' popular Fundamentals of Radiology series delivers informationessential to residents, staff physicians and medical students beginning clinical rotations - especially those in emergency department and other urgent care settings. Step-by-step tables, algorithms, and over 370 illustrations help readers to evaluate and interpret images depicting the most common traumatic and nontraumatic illnesses and medical conditions in adults and children. Differential diagnoses ofcommon radiographic abnormalities are included for each of the tables mentioned above - facilitating further radiographic and laboratory evaluation or treatment. Helpful algorithms pilot readers through every phase of the work of frequently encountered traumatic and medical conditions - including evaluation of the patient with suspected cervical spine injury, suspected pulmonary embolus, and many more conditions.
language: English
title: Fundamentals of Emergency Radiology
titlecomplete: Fundamentals of Emergency Radiology (Fundamentals of Radiology)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Saunders