Ultrasound in giant cell arteritis. Introduction and Dunedin audit results.

Endovascular Clot Retrieval. Breakthrough therapy for stroke patients.

The lecture is for sonographers, sonographers-in-training, and other health professionals with an interest in ultrasonography for portable stroke diagnosis.

At the conclusion of this lecture, the audience should have better understanding of:
- Ultrasonography for prehospital large vessel occlusi...

Introduction
Diagnostic Ultrasound (DU) plays an integral role in the assessment and mapping of Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI)(Neglen & Raju, 1992; Zygmunt, 2014) and in particular the assessment and documentation of perforator veins.(Eidson Iii & Bush, 2010). Also evident is a paucity of re...

New Transcranial Colour Duplex Findings Support Significant Venous Alterations Following Cerebral Arteriovenoous Malformation Resection

Duplex ultrasound is ideally suited as a non - invasive method to evaluate the outcome of treatments for chronic venous disease as it provides both anatomical and haemodynamic information about the treated veins.
In this session I will present information about some of the recent or modern veno...

The value of Aortic Anuerysm Screening with abdominal ultrasound is well established. There are however important questions that remain for screening programmes to remain cost effective, accessible, affordable and equitable. Developing strategies to make this possible will be presented and the im...