Emergency Echocardiography

• Main Author: Chenzbraun, Adrian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.; Internal Medicine.

Echocardiography is the most versatile cardiac imaging technology readily available at the patient's bedside. Its superb diagnostic ability relates to the potential to identify any hemodynamic condition and cardiac pathology that implies a morphologic and/or a flow pattern change. Because the m...

Table of Contents:

• Getting Ready for the Study
• Emergency Echocardiography
• Echocardiography in the Hypotensive Patient
• Echocardiography in the Hypoxemic Patient
• Echocardiography in Valvular Emergencies
• Echocardiography in Acute Chest Pain and Coronary Syndromes
• Echocardiography in Acute Aortic Syndromes
• Echocardiography in Acute Pulmonary Embolism
• Echocardiography in Stroke and Systemic Embolism
• Echocardiography in the Septic Patient
• Echocardiography During and After Resuscitation
• Echocardiography in Special Situations
• Conclusion.