This book is for clinicians, to help them learn how to ultrasound the chest, using trans-thoracic ultrasound. It is mostly concerned with simple bedside scanning, but also includes information on more advanced applications, to give the reader an idea of what a skilled radiologist, with a more powerful instrument, can do.

Non-invasive ventilation has come a long way since its early use in specialist units. Now in common use on all wards, it is vital that everyone who comes into contact with non-intensive ventilation equipment on the front line of management of respiratory failure has ac cess to high quality, practical technical information.

Every doctor training to become a specialist in respiratory medicine needs to know how to interpret the lung function tests which they encounter. However, the person often in the best position to interpret such tests is the clinician who sits with the patient in front of them, chest x-rays and scans at hand. It follows that doctors who regularly request lung function tests, or who see patients who have had these tests, should know how to interpret them.