Editors
O. John Ma, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency
Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
James R. Mateer, MD, RDMS
Clinical
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Staff Physician
Emergency Medicine
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Michael Blaivas, MD, RDMS
Professor of
Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Northside
Hospital Forsyth
Cumming, Georgia
Contributors
Frédéric Adnet, MD
Universite Paris XIII
Hopital
Avicenne
Bobigny, France
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives
from Four Countries
Chandra D. Aubin, MD,
RDMS
Assistant Professor and Assistant Residency Director
Division of Emergency Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Second- and Third-Trimester Pregnancy
Aaron E. Bair, MD, MS
Department of
Emergency Medicine
University of CaliforniaDavis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
Vascular Access
Michael Blaivas, MD, RDMS
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
Northside Hospital Forsyth
Cumming, Georgia
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four
Countries
Testicular
Deep Venous Thrombosis
Ocular Ultrasound
Jörg Braun, MD
German Air Rescue, Filderstadt
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives
from Four Countries
Raoul Breitkreutz, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy
University Hospital, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
Frankfurt am
Main, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four
Countries
Franziska Brenner, MD
Frankfurter Institut für Notfallmedizin und Simulationstraining
(FINEST)
Frankfurt, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound:
Perspectives from Four Countries
Thomas P.
Cook, MD
Residency Program Director
Department of Emergency
Medicine
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Andreas
Dewitz, MD, RDMS
Director, Emergency Ultrasound
Department of
Emergency Medicine
Boston Medical Center
Assistant Professor of
Emergency Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston,
Massachusetts
Soft Tissue
Additional Ultrasound-Guided
Procedures
Giancarlo Fontana, MD
Niguarda Hospital Emergency Department
Milan, Italy
Prehospital
Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
J. Christian Fox, MD, RDMS
Associate Professor of Emergency
Medicine
Director of Emergency Ultrasound
Department of Emergency
Medicine
University of California Irvine Medical Center
Director
of Emergency and Trauma Ultrasound
University of California, Irvine
Gynecologic Concepts
Equipment
Bradley W. Frazee, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine
UCSF Attending Physician
Alameda County
Medical Center
Highland General Hospital
Oakland, California
Soft Tissue
Second- and Third-Trimester Pregnancy
Cristina Frigerio, MD
Niguarda Hospital
Emergency Department
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound:
Perspectives from Four Countries
Jessica
R. Goldstein, MD
Assistant Professor
Case Western Reserve
University
Associate Director Emergency Ultrasound
MetroHealth
Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio
Additional Ultrasound-Guided
Procedures
Carmela Graci, MD
Niguarda Hospital Emergency Department
Milan, Italy
Prehospital
Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Elena Guffanti, MD
Emergency Department
Niguarda Cà
Granda Hospital
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound:
Perspectives from Four Countries
Lowell
“Corky” Hecht, BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT
Program Manager and
Senior Clinical Instructor
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute, Inc.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Physics and Image Artifacts
William Heegaard, MD
Assistant Chief
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of
Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prehospital
Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Scott Joing, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
Faculty Physician
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County
Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prehospital Ultrasound:
Perspectives from Four Countries
Cardiac
First-Trimester
Pregnancy
Robert A. Jones, DO, RDMS, FACEP
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Case Western
Reserve University
Director
Division of Emergency Ultrasound
Director
Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship MetroHealth Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio
Additional Ultrasound-Guided Procedures
Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, CD, MD, MHSc, FRCSC, FACS
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
Foothills Medical Centre
Associate Professor
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Foothills
Medical Centre
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Trauma
Thomas Kirschning, MD
Department of
Anesthesiology
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
Frankfurt/Main,
Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Frédéric Lapostolle, MD
Universite Paris XIII
Hopital Avicenne
Bobigny, France
Prehospital
Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Michael J. Lambert, MD, RDMS, FAAEM
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Illinois College of
Medicine
Fellowship Director, Emergency Ultrasound
Advocate Christ
Medical Center
Oak Lawn, Illinois
Training and Program
Development
Gynecologic Concepts
Matthew Lyon, MD, RDMS
Assistant Professor
Assistant
Director, Section of Emergency Ultrasound
Department of Emergency
Medicine
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia
Ocular
Ultrasound
O. John Ma, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Oregon Health
& Science University
Portland, Oregon
Trauma
Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCP
Attending Staff
Physician
Department of Emergency Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center and Los Angeles
County-USC Medical Center
Director of
Emergency Ultrasound
Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los
Angeles, California
Renal
Ingo
Marzi, MD
Department of Trauma Surgery
University of Saarland
Hamburg, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four
Countries
James R. Mateer, MD, RDMS
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency
Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Staff Physician
Emergency Medicine
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Trauma
Luca
Neri, MD
Prehospital Emergency Service
Niguarda Ca' Granda
Hospital
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from
Four Countries
Nadine Nieuwkamp, MD
Frankfurter Institut für Notfallmedizin und Simulationstraining
(FINEST)
Frankfurt, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound:
Perspectives from Four Countries
Masaaki
Ogata, MD
Director
Division of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Director
Department of Surgery
Kobe Nishi City Hospital
Kobe, Japan
General Surgery Applications
Aman K. Parikh, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of
Emergency Medicine
University of California, Davis
Sacramento,
California
Vascular Access
Michael
A. Peterson, MD, FAAEM
Associate Professor of Medicine
David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director
Emergency Ultrasound
Training Program and Fellowship
Department of Emergency Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California
Training and
Program Development
Pediatric Applications
Tomislav Petrovic, MD
Universite Paris XIII
Hopital Avicenne
Bobigny, France
Prehospital Ultrasound:
Perspectives from Four Countries
Dave
Plummer, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County
Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prehospital Ultrasound:
Perspectives from Four Countries
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Daniel D. Price, MD
Assistant Clinical
Professor
University of CaliforniaSan Francisco
Director,
Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Alameda County Medical CenterHighland
Campus
Oakland, California
Pediatric Applications
Robert F. Reardon, MD
Faculty
Department of Emergency Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of
Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prehospital Ultrasound:
Perspectives from Four Countries
Cardiac
Abdominal
Aortic Aneurysm
First-Trimester Pregnancy
John S. Rose, MD
Division of Emergency
Medicine
University of CaliforniaDavis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
Vascular Access
Will Scruggs, MD, RDMS
Director of Emergency Department
Ultrasound
Hawaii Emergency Physicians Associated
Castle Medical
Center
Kailua, Hawaii
Equipment
Dave Spear, MD, FACEP
Medical Director
Fire Department
Odessa Fire Department
Odessa, Texas
Emergency Ultrasound Director
Emergency Medicine
Parkland Hospital
Dallas, Texas
Prehospital
Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Enrico Storti, MD
Niguarda Hospital Emergency Department
Milan, Italy
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four
Countries
Stuart Swadron, MD, FRCP(C),
FACEP, FAAEM
Program Director
Residency in Emergency Medicine
Attending Staff Physician
Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Keck School of
Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles,
California
Renal
Daniel Theodoro,
MD, RDMS
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Washington
University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Hepatobiliary
Felix Walcher, MD, PhD
Department of
Trauma Surgery
University Hospital Frankfurt
Hamburg, Germany
Prehospital Ultrasound: Perspectives from Four Countries
Jason Wilkins, MD
CEO
Mannequin and
Network Teaching Associates
Springfield, Missouri
Physics and
Image Artifacts