TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Emergency Radiology Imaging and Intervention
A2  - Marincek, Borut.
A2  - Marincek, Borut.
A2  - Dondelinger, Robert F.
A2  - Dondelinger, Robert F.
LA  - English
PP  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer
YR  - 2007
ED  - 1st ed. 2007.
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/978-3-540-68908-9
AB  - Why write a book on emergency radiology? In many coun- decline. There is an increasing trend towards the use of tries, hospital emergency departments have become a MDCT to evaluate traumatic injuries and non-traumatic major part of the healthcare safety net. In the last decade emergencies. The use of workstations for reporting and for economically-driven structural changes in health care further image reconstruction becomes standard practice. delivery have caused a dramatic increase in emergency On the occasion of the European Congress of Radiology department visits. In response to capacity and staffing (ECR) 2003 and 2004 a Categorical Course on “Emergency pressures, hospitals are developing and implementing a Radiology”has been organized to assess current devel- variety of strategies designed to improve patient flow and ments and concepts in this rapidly growing field. reduce overcrowding in the emergency department. Numerous radiologists,all outstanding and international- Several factors are considered critical for success, such as ly renowned experts in their field,have made superb c- having the right multidisciplinary teams in place and opti- tributions in an ECR syllabus. These authors have now mizing the use of imaging tests. For a critical care physi- made a second effort and updated their contributions for cian it is paramount to obtain the images quickly and for this book. The chapters in the book mirror the topics p- them to be interpreted accurately. sented in the ECR course, encompassing imaging ap- To accomplish this, the emergency radiology division proaches as well as interventional aspects.
OP  - 650
CN  - R895-920
SN  - 9783540689089
KW  - Radiology.
KW  - Internal medicine.
KW  - Neurology .
KW  - Traumatology.
KW  - Imaging / Radiology.
KW  - Diagnostic Radiology.
KW  - Internal Medicine.
KW  - Neurology.
KW  - Traumatic Surgery.
ER  -