Description:
Echocardiography is the most cost-effective and versatile imaging technique for assessing patients suffering from unstable cardiovascular diseases. Since 2005, emergency echocardiography has been recognized as a specific field, with particular implications to education, training, and reporting. Emergency Echocardiography covers the topic and completely updates existing chapters. This second edition utilizes a user friendly new pedagogy and contains new topics of interest to the widening readership from professionals from various specialties, e.g. cardiologists, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, intensivists and fellows. New chapters address emerging topics, including training and educational requirements and provides online learning materials that comprise more than 450 video loops and illustrative case scenarios.
Table of Contents:
1. Emergency echocardiography: General considerations
2. Echocardiography in acute myocardial infarction
3. Echocardiography in complications of acute myocardial infarction
4. Echocardiography in acute heart failure and cardiogenic shock
5. Echocardiography in cardiac arrest
6. Echocardiography in acute aortic dissection
7. Echocardiography in acute pulmonary embolism
8. Echocardiography in cardiac tamponade
9. Echocardiography in acute aortic insufficiency
10. Echocardiography in acute mitral regurgitation
11. Echocardiography in obstruction of native valves
12. Emergency echocardiography in patients with prosthetic valves
13. Echocardiography in detecting cardiac sources of embolism
14. Emergency intraoperative echocardiography
15. Echocardiography in mechanical circulatory assistance
16. Echocardiography in chest trauma
17. Stress echocardiography in the emergency department
18. Pocket-size imaging devices in the emergency setting
19. Focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS)
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