Like the popular and extremely effective Vascular Technology: An Illustrated Review by Rumwell and McPharlin, this new book covers and explains exactly what you need to know to pass your obstetrics & gynecology specialty exam, topic by topic, in one volume, silver-bullet style. Written by nationally renowned clinicians and educators, it concisely reviews everything on the current exam outline, focusing your time and effort on what really counts. Includes illustrated cases, image-based exercises, glossaries, self-assessment activities, and built-in CME component. As part of Davies 1-2-3 Step Ultrasound Education and Test Preparation program, Ob/Gyn Sonography is especially powerful in combination with the registry-like mock exam Ob/Gyn Sonography Review (also available in CD-ROM format!) by Kathy Gill. 12 hours SDMS-approved CME credit! 240 illustrations (18 in color). 384 pp.

How To Tell a Book by Its Cover

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The standard has been raised. Completely revised and updated, significantly expanded, and better than ever, the new edition of this popular book explains and illustrates what you need to know to pass the Vascular Technology and Physicians' Vascular Interpretation exams—topic by topic, in one volume, by leading technologists who themselves have taken, passed, and helped others prepare for and pass their RVT exams. Based on the registry’s exam outline, it includes new illustrations, duplex and color flow images, Doppler waveforms, photo-documented physiologic exam techniques, angiograms, new self-assessment exercises, glossaries, and integral CME application. Particularly useful in combination with Vascular Technology Review, Vascular Physics Review, and ScoreCards for Vascular Technology. Thorough coverage of physical principles (including Doppler), indications, and interpretation makes this book an excellent review for physicians taking the PVI exam.
12 hours SDMS-approved CME! 314 illustrations (23 in color). 442 pp.

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A short, simple, clear, well-illustrated introduction that covers and unifies the basic principles and concepts of ultrasound physics. Perfect for physicsphobes. UPI topics are covered, although (by design) not as deeply or complexly as in Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation by Hedrick, Hykes and Starchman, and Diagnostic Ultrasound: Principles and Instruments by Kremkau. Self-assessment quizzes ensure that you understand each chapter. Mosby. 334 illustrations. 240 pp.

The fetal heart is considered to be the most important and difficult part of fetal examination. This practical and emphatically clinical book and the DVD that comes with it enable the reader first to determine whether the heart is normal or not, and then, if not, to diagnose the type of cardiac abnormality. To provide the skills and methodology to do this, the book covers basic anatomy and embryology and explains what to look for, as well as why and how. It also describes associated pathology (e.g. chromosomal abnormalities, syndromes), which the sonographer must know once a cardiac abnormality has been found.

Here is what you will find in this powerful combination of book and DVD:

Why Fetal Heart Ultrasound?

Introduction. General principles. Review. Application to fetal cardiopathies. References.

Technical Aspects

Physical principals of ultrasound applied to fetal ultrasound. Reflection of ultrasound waves. The shortest pathway. Getting around obstacles. From the point of view of time. Physical principles of Doppler. New techniques linked to volume acquisition. Practical controls. Elements to set permanently. Zoom. Focus. Gain. Preset elements. Dynamic range. Frequency. Beamline density. Persistence. Contours. Doppler settings. The size of the box. The incident wave direction. PRF. Color gain. Using ultrasound to examine the fetal heart. Echostructure. Fetal heart position. Movements of the target. Technical pitfalls. Problems linked to exposure in the zone of interest. Ultrasound windows. Setting pitfalls. Further reading.

Correlating the Ultrasound Image with the Anatomy

Three steps, 10 key points: First step: Position. Key points: Lateralization, organs, vessels, the axis of the heart. Second Step: Inflow. Key points: Heart, diaphragm, and pulmonary veins; 4 chambers; contractile, balanced, concordant; crux-of-the-heart, rings, and offsetting. Third Step: Outflow. Key points: 2 balanced outlet chambers with the alignment of the septum, 2 superimposed and crossed arched vessels; balanced and concordant. Regular aortic arch. References.

Conducting the Examination and Avoiding Pitfalls

Taking the history. A fast glance. Views verifying the 10 key points and their pitfalls. The lift, verification of the position, and pitfalls. Technique and pitfalls: elements of lateralization, organ position, vessel position. The four chamber view: inlet verification and its pitfalls. The technique. Axial apical pathway. Crux-of-the-heart. Pitfalls. The Ao and apex of the heart on the same side to the left. The heart's axis. The swings. Lateral fluctuation: asymmetries. Anterior-posterior movements: false AVSD and false VSD. View LV-aorta. Axial-apical view. Axial lateral view. "SOS" view: Sagittal and its pitfalls. View RV-PT. Axial view. Small axis view and its pitfalls. The 3 vessel or 2 arches view. Pitfalls. Sagittal view and the aortic arch. Pitfalls. Further Reading. References.

Critical Cardiac Pathologies Not To Be Overlooked

First step: Position pathologies. Key points: Position anomalies of the organs, of situs; vessel position; anomalies of the position of the heart; in the right thorax; heart axis. Second Step: Inlet pathologies. Key points: Anomalies of pulmonary venous return; irregular number of chambers (3, 4+ or 5 chambers); unbalanced; abnormalities of the atrioventricular valves (atresia of one AV valve and the spectrum of AVSD). Third Step: Outflow pathologies. Key points: VSD misalignment in CTC, complete transposition of the great vessels, hypoplasia of the left tract, ventricular-arterial discordances and position errors, coarctation of the aorta, interruption of the aortic arch. References.

Fetal Morphological Examination after the Discovery of a Cardiopathy

Unknown karyotypes. Investigation for signs associated with the principal chromosomal anomalies. Normal known karyotype. Investigation of a microdeletion 22 q11 or signs linked with associations or genetic syndromes. Cardiopathy and intrauterine restricted growth (IURG). Fetal alcohol syndrome. VACTERL syndrome. References.

Points to remember

Technical points. Key points in the heart exam. Morphology. Further Reading.

Like Zagzebski’s Essentials, this fine book is very well-written and easy to understand, but its coverage of UPI topics is broader and more complex. If you want a very thorough text and have neither a fear of physics nor a love of highly technical language, this may be your best choice. Adequately illustrated and well written, it includes a glossary, self-assessment exercises to guide you, and color plates. Mosby. 650 illustrations. 464 pp.