Emergency Echocardiography

Description

Echocardiography is the most cost-effective and versatile imaging technique for assessing patients suffering from unstable cardiovascular diseases. Since 2005, emergency echocardiography hasbeen 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 thewidening readership from professionals from various specialties, e.g. cardiologists, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, intensivists and fellows. New chapters address emerging topics, includingtraining and educational requirements and provides online learning materials that comprise more than 450 video loops and illustrative case scenarios.

Features

• Contains new chaptersthataddressemergingtopics of interest of widerange of medical professionalsdealingwith cardiovascular emergencies.
• Includes training and educationalrequirements
• Provides online learningmaterialsthatcomprise more than 450 video loops and illustrative case scenarios

Contents

Emergency Echocardiography: General Considerations
Ivan Stankovic, Andreas Hagendorff and Aleksandar N. Neskovic

Echocardiography in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Aleksandar N. Neskovic, Leonardo Bolognese and Michael H. Picard

Echocardiography in Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Aleksandar N. Neskovic, Predrag M. Milicevic and Michael H. Picard

Echocardiography in Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
Mohammed T. Ali and Michael H. Picard

Echocardiography in Cardiac Arrest
Gregory M. Scalia and Julie A. Humphries

Echocardiography in Acute Aortic Dissection
Tomasz Baron and Frank A. Flachskampf

Echocardiography in Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Piotr Pruszczyk and Adam Torbicki

Echocardiography in Cardiac Tamponade
Mauro Pepi, Gloria Tamborini and Manuela Muratori

Echocardiography in Acute Aortic Insufficiency
Asaad A. Khan and Michael H. Picard

Echocardiography in Acute Mitral Regurgitation
Tomasz Baron and Frank A. Flachskampf

Echocardiography in Obstruction of Native Valves
Dmitriy Kireyev and Michael H. Picard

Emergency Echocardiography in Patients with Prosthetic Valves
Mauro Pepi and Frank A. Flachskampf

Echocardiography in Detecting Cardiac Sources of Embolism
Satoshi Nakatani, Maria Joao Andrade and Justiaan Swanevelder

Emergency Intraoperative Echocardiography
Patrick Collier, Zoran B. Popovic, and Brian P. Griffin

Echocardiography in Mechanical Circulatory Assistance
David G. Platts and Gregory M. Scalia

Echocardiography in Chest Trauma
Gregory M. Scalia and Agatha Kwon

Stress Echocardiography in the Emergency Room
Quirino Ciampi and Eugenio Picano

Pocket-Size Imaging Devices in the Emergency Setting
Ivan Stankovic and Satoshi Nakatani

Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FoCUS)
Gabriele Via, Guido Tavazzi and Silvia Mongodi

Editor(s) Bio

Aleksandar N. Neskovic, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Clinical Hospital Center Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia

Frank A. Flachskampf, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University and Department of Cardiology and Clinical Physiology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Michael H. Picard, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA