Endobronchial Ultrasound Made Easy

This is a concise, yet comprehensive book that teaches all essential aspects of the practice of Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) bronchoscopy. Written by world experts, who share their clinical experience to provide a practical and step-by-step approach to learning and performing linear and radial EBUS bronchoscopy. Supplemented by more than 250+ high-quality illustrations, images and videos selected from the authors’ personal collections, all chapters include expert tips, clinical pearls, rare cases and interactive self-assessment sections to enhance and reinforce the learning of both beginner and advanced bronchoscopists wishing to learn, practice and teach EBUS.

Key Features:

• Features rare and interesting EBUS cases followed by Multiple Choice Questions in each chapter
• Explores the subject through a wealth of accompanying illustrations and teaching videos for a fun learning experience for bronchoscopists, fellows and trainees in respiratory medicine, oncologists and thoracic surgeons who perform EBUS
• Fills a spot in the market for a quick reference which has updated, practical information from international experts in the field of EBUS with a strong visual component which is especially key for this diagnostic modality.

i. Dedications

ii. Table of contents

iii. Foreword

iv. Preface

v. Acknowledgements

vi. List of contributors

Section 1: Introduction       

1.1           History of EBUS

David Fielding MBBS FRACP MD

1.2           EBUS equipment

Sameer K. Avasarala MD
Fabien Maldonado MD FCCP

1.3         Principles of Endobronchial Ultrasonography

Elliot Ho DO
Septimiu Murgu MD

Section 2: Anatomy

2.1       Anatomy of the Mediastinum
Alexander Gregor MD PhD
Tsukasa Ishiwata MD PhD
Kazuhiro Yasufuku MD PhD FRCSC

2.2       Airways
Fumihiro Asano MD
Kazuhiro Yasufuku MD PhD FRCSC

Section 3: EBUS interpretation

3.1       Mediastinum
Andrew DeMaio MD
David Feller-Kopman MD

3.2       Airways
Allen Cole Burks MD
Alexander Chen MD

Section 4: EBUS Indications

4.1       Linear EBUS
Calvin Sidhu MBBS FRACP
Rajesh Thomas MBBS PhD FRACP

4.2       Radial EBUS 
Arash Badiei BE (Biomedical) MBBS PhD FRACP
Phan Nguyen MBBS PhD FRACP

Section 5: EBUS – Step-by-step

5.1       Linear EBUS
Takahiro Nakajima MD PhD

5.2       Radial EBUS
            Daniel Steinfort MBBS BMedSci FRACP PhD

Section 6: Safey of EBUS

Justin Garner MBBS MRC PhD
Pallav Shah MD MBBS FERS FRCP

Section 7: EUS-B

            Bin Hwangbo MD PhD 

Section 8: Anaesthesia

            Mona Sarkiss MD PhD

Section 9: EBUS Training

Ekaterina Yavarovic DO       
Carla Lamb MD FACP FCCP

Section 10: Setting up your EBUS service

Coral X. Giovacchini MD
Momen M. Wahidi MD MBA

Section 11: EBUS in the developing world

            Balamugesh Thangakunam MD DM FRCP FRCPS FCCP

Section 12: The Future of EBUS

Xinxin Hu BMedSci MD MMedicine FRACP
Rajesh Thomas MBBS PhD FRACP
Kazuhiro Yasufuku MD PhD FRCSC

Section 13: Clinical PEARLS

Xinxin Hu BMedSci MD MMedicine FRACP
Nai-Chien Huan MBBS FRCP FCCP FAPSR
Rajesh Thomas MBBS PhD FRACP