BookArmando Sarti, F. Luca Lorini, editors.
Summary: The second edition of this illustrated book equips practitioners with all the information that they will require in order to perform echocardiography appropriately and to interpret findings correctly. After clear exposition of fundamentals of the examination technique via both the transthoracic and the transesophageal approach, the functional anatomy of all normal and pathologic thoracic structures as observed on echocardiography is presented in detail. A wide range of basic and advanced applications of echocardiography in the emergency, perioperative, and intensive care settings are then described. A final supplementary section considers further applications of ultrasound in the ICU, such as in patients with respiratory failure, trauma, or venous thrombosis. This edition has been extensively revised and updated and includes entirely new chapters on various techniques and applications. It will be a tremendous aid to current best practice for all intensivists, emergency physicians, and anesthesiologists who intend to use echocardiography and ultrasound for diagnosis and guidance of optimal management in the critically ill.
Contents:
I ULTRASOUND AND USE OF THE ECHO MACHINE
1 EssentialPhysics of Ultrasound and Use of the Ultrasound Machine
II STANDARD ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION
2 Ultrasound Morphology of the Heart: Transthoracic Examination
3 Transthoracic Echocardiography in the ICU: The Patient Who Is Difficult To Study
4 Ultrasound Morphology of the Heart: Transesophageal Examination
5 Three-DimensionaL Echocardiography
6 Speckle Tracing for Left and right ventricles
III ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONAL ECHO-ANATOMY
7 The Left Ventricle. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients
8 The Right Ventricle and Pulmonary Artery. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients
9 Left and Right Atria. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients
10 Pericardium and Pericardial Diseases
11 The Aorta. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients
12 Inferior and Superior Venae Cavae. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients
13 Ischemia and Myocardial infarction
14 The Cardiomyopathies
15 Cor Pulmonale and Pulmonary Hypertension
16 Mitral Valve
17 The Aortic Valve
18 Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valves
19 Endocarditis
20 Prosthetic Valve Evaluation
21 Cardiac Tumors and Masses
22 Congenital Septal Abnormalities in the Adult Patient
23 Essential Pediatric Echocardiography
IV ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN THE IC AND OR: BASIC AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
24 Echocardiographic History, Echocardiographic Monitoring, and Goal-Directed, Focus- Oriented, and Comprehensive Examination
25 Intraoperative Echocardiography in Cardiac Surgery
26 General Hemodynamic Assessment
27 Contrast Echocardiography in the ICU and OR
28 Echo-Guided Therapy for Myocardial Ischemia
29 Hypovolemia and Fluid Responsiveness
30 ARDS, ALI, Mechanical Ventilation, and Weaning
31 Hypotension
32 Suspicion of Pulmonary Embolism
33 Suspicion of Acute Aortic Diseases
34 Chest Pain
35 Acute Dyspnea
36 Unexplained Hypoxemia
37 Sepsis and Septic Shock
38 Chest Trauma
39 Acute Atrial Fibrillation and Other Arrhythmias
40 Ultrasound Practice for ICU Nurses
41 Multiorgan Donor and Transplant Patients
42 New-Onset Cardiac Murmur in the Unstable Patient.-43 ICU Echocardiography and Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring
44 Ventricle- Arterial coupling
45 Non-cardiac Surgery: Perioperative Echocardiography and Lung
46 Perioperative echocardiography for Aortic Procedures
47 Obstetric Echocardiography
V ULTRASOUND IN THE ICU: OTHER APPLICATIONS
48 Echocardiography and Advanced Life Support
49 Central and Peripheral Vein Cannulation
50 Essential Ultrasonography for Venous Thrombosis
51 Lung and Pleural Ultrasonography in Emergency and Intensive Care
52 Ultrasound and the Morbidly-Obese Patient
53 Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma
54 Renal Ultrasound and Echo-Color Doppler Techniques in Kidney Failure
55 Ultrasound for Percutaneous Tracheostomy
56 Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography in Emergency and Intensive Care
57 Ultrasonography of the Optic Nerve
58 Muscle Ultrasound for the ICU patient
59 Fever of unknown origin and Ultrasound
60 US-guided Regional Analgesia in the ICU.