This book describes Emergency Ultrasound (EFAST echo, Lung Ultrasound, Vascular Ultrasound and Transthoracic Echocardiograhy) and all ultrasound technics in Anesthesia practice, i.e.
Dr. Peňafrancia Cano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine-Philippine General Hospital. Currently, she is the Chief of the Division of Regional Anesthesia (RA) and the Head of the RA Fellowship Training in the same institution; previously, she served as the Division Chief of Ambulatory Anesthesia and Orthopedic Anesthesia. Dr. Cano is formerly an Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. She underwent a fellowship in Molecular Biology at the Kobe University College of Medicine in Kobe, Japan in 1996 and also a fellowship training in Transplant Anesthesia at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn, Germany in 1997. She was the first to obtain the European Diploma in Regional Anesthesia (EDRA) from the European Society of Regional Anesthesia Diploma in the Philippines. Dr. Cano has been invited as a speaker at international congresses and she has also worked as faculty of New York School of Regional Anesthesia (NYSORA)-Asia and NYSORA World Anesthesia Congress (NWAC) in Rome, Bangkok, and Vienna. Dr. Cano is one of the co-founders of RA-Asia, an organization of RA experts in Asia and co-founder and Head of the Academic Committee of the Manila Academy of Regional Anesthesia (MARA), an educational organization of anesthesiologists who pioneered the introduction of UGRA in the Philippines. She is also the President of the POCUS
Special Interest Group called SCAN.
Dr. Shahridan bin Mohd Fathil obtained his MBBS from the University of Malaya in 1996. He underwent anaesthesia training initially in Malaysia, and then Ireland and England. He has also completed a Regional Anaesthesia Fellowship in Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He was appointed as a consultant and later senior consultant with Alexandra Hospital and Ng Teng Fong General Hospital ,Singapore before his move to Gleneagles Medini. His main field of interest are focused on US guided regional anaesthesia and point-of-care US. He was the past convenor for the special interest group in regional anaesthesia, College of Anaesthesiologists, and is the past member of the executive committees of the Malaysian Society of Anaesthesiologists and the Society of Critical and Emergency Sonography, Malaysia Emergency Sonography, Malaysia.He is currently the Deputy Editor for the Malaysian Journal of Anaesthesiology.
Prof. Habiba Memamid obtained his PHD of intensive care at the Medical Faculty University Al Baz 1 Setif in Algeria. He is responsible for the Intensive Care Unit at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saadna Abdenour De Sétif and his main fields of interests are critical care echocardiography and hemodynamic evaluation.