Echocardiography in the CCU

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Herzog, Eyal (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Argulian, Edgar (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Cardiology.; Cardiac imaging.; Cardiac Imaging.

This book comprehensively reviews the use of echocardiography in the rapidly evolving field of critical care cardiology. Increasingly, cardiac care units (CCU) are focusing on the management of patients with multisystem diseases, advanced hemodynamics compromise, complex ventricular arrhythmias, and...

Table of Contents:

• Hemodynamic assessment in the CCU by Echo
• Use of Echo in Patients with Intra-Cardiac Device
• Non Cardiac Ultrasound in the CCU
• Hand held Ultrasound devices in the CCU
• Contrast Echo in the CCU
• Echo in Acute Chest Pain
• Echo in Acute Dyspnea
• Echo in Syncope
• Echo in Hypotension and Shock
• Echo in Cardiac Arrest
• Echo in a Patient with Arrhythmia
• Echo in Acute Neurologic Syndrome
• Echo in a Patient with a new murmur.