Education credentialing and getting started / Vincente Gracias, Heidi Frankel and Ronald Gross -- FAST (focused assessment by sonography in trauma) / Ronald Gross -- Chest trauma / Frank Davis and M. Gage Ochsner -- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening / David Pilcher -- Pediatric applications / Oluyinka Olutoye, Richard Bellah and Perry Stafford -- Appendicitis / S.C. Chen -- Surveillance of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) / Rajan Gupta and Jeffrey Carpenter -- Insertion of central catheters / Tarek Razek and Michael Russell -- Transcranial Doppler / George Counelis and Grant Sinson -- Diagnosis and treatment of fluid collections and other pathology / Mark McKenney and S. Morad Hameed -- Use in the operating room / P.V. Gallagher, David Wherry and Richard Charnley -- Use in the operating room--laparoscopic / Rajesh Gandhi -- Breast ultrasound / Sheryl Gabram and Nicos Labropoulos -- Vascular / David Neschis and Jeffrey Carpenter -- Rectal / John Winston and Lee Smith.