Bedside Ultrasound in Crisis: Mastering eFAST, Shock Protocols, and the Acute Abdomen in Emergency Medicine (The Ultrasound Mastery Series)

Bedside Ultrasound in Crisis
The patient is crashing. The monitors scream. The CT scanner is fifteen minutes away—and they don't have fifteen minutes.
In that moment, the difference between uncertainty and decisive action rests in your hands. Not on a radiologist's schedule. Not in a darkened reading room. Right here, right now, at the bedside.
Bedside Ultrasound in Crisis is the definitive guide for emergency physicians who refuse to practice in the dark. Written with the depth of a master clinician and the clarity of a gifted teacher, this book transforms portable ultrasound from a mysterious technology into an extension of your clinical intuition.
Inside, you will discover how to systematically interrogate the crashing patient using the RUSH, FALLS, and ACES protocols—seeing what stethoscopes cannot reveal and acting before irreversible shock sets in. You will master the eFAST examination and push beyond its limitations, detecting occult hemorrhage, pericardial tamponade, and tension pneumothorax in the seconds that determine survival. You will learn to distinguish bladder rupture from intraperitoneal blood in pelvic trauma, to quantify hemothorax without moving the patient, and to identify the subtle intimal flap of aortic dissection before it ruptures.
The chapters unfold like clinical encounters: immersive, practical, and relentlessly focused on what matters when the pressure is absolute. From cardiogenic shock to septic collapse, from testicular torsion to ruptured ectopic pregnancy, from contrast-enhanced trauma imaging to ultrasound-guided resuscitative procedures—every page builds your capacity to see faster, diagnose sharper, and intervene earlier.
This is not a textbook for passive reading. It is a manual for transformation.
The emergency department rewards those who arrive prepared. Your next unstable patient is already en route. The question is whether you will see what is killing them in time to stop it.
Open this book. Train your eyes. Be ready.