For novice scanners and for sonographers and echocardiographers cross-training in vascular ultrasound, here is the improved third edition of Don Ridgway's very popular, unabashedly practical, and famously unique guide to performing vascular studies now with Uncle Don's Bonus Image Section, new chapters on the Doppler principle, those darn Doppler angles, and other vascular diagnostic modalities, plus new illustrations, new scanning exercises, and expanded coverage of carotid scanning, abdominal Doppler, upper and lower extremity scanning, and color flow imaging. As if that weren't enough, the latest edition is approved for 12 hours of SDMS-approved CME credit.
Don Ridgway is a professor in the Grossmont College Cardiovascular Technology Program and the coordinator of the vascular specialty. He has taught and worked in the vascular sonography field since 1985. He graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in Comparative Literature in 1970, played bluegrass music for a living for 10+ years, and then finally got a useful job after completing the Grossmont CVT Program.
His Introduction to Vascular Scanning, from Davies Publishing, was first published in 1991, and will soon be published in its 4th edition (as of July 2010), much improved, he thinks.
Don is also the editor of Vascular Technology Review, containing approximately 600 study questions for sonographers preparing for the ARDMS (American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers) registry exam.
Vascular Anatomy & Physiology, a textbook for students preparing for a career in vascular sonography, is expected late in 2010 or early 2011.
