Editorial Review:

Grossmont College, CA. Guide for novice scanners and for sonographers and echocardiographers who are crosstraining in vascular scanning. Previous edition: c1993. Well illustrated. Second in this series. DNLM: Blood Vessels--ultrasonography.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Great introduction:

As a cardiologist with an interest in vascular imaging, this was a very good introduction. I appreciated the colloquial style and illustrations. The only critisism would be the absence of any mention of variations caused by vascular pathology

RVT:

This book is an absolute must have for anyone in the field--not just for beginners. Donald Ridgway just has a way of explaining the vascular system & scanning techniques like no other. I understand the vascular system & I learned how to scan (pretty much on my own) thanks to his book. Very helpful. Great humor. I hope Donald Ridgway writes a guide for abdominal & ob/gyn scanning in the near future.

Introduction to Vascular Scanning: A Guide for the Complete Beginner (Introductions to Vascular Technology):

This is an excellent book for the beginner. I highly recommend it.

A completely fair and balanced five stars:

Okay, I'm the author. In all these years no one has ever put a review up here, so I'm going to do it.
This is a guide to scanning the vascular system with ultrasound. It was meant to be a vascular-sonography version of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Volkswagen Repair, or the Pete Seeger banjo book: easy to read and make sense of, and practical. It takes the reader step-by-step through protocols for scanning first carotid arteries, then lower-extremity veins, LE arteries, upper extremities, and the... more info

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