Hemodynamic Monitoring Using Echocardiography in the Critically Ill

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Backer, Daniel de (Editor), Cholley, Bernard P. (Editor), Slama, Michel (Editor), Vieillard-Baron, Antoine (Editor), Vignon, Philippe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

The hemodynamic evaluation of patients with acute circulatory failure and respiratory failure has in the past usually been performed using invasive procedures but in recent years less invasive monitoring devices have been introduced. Hemodynamic evaluation by echocardiography is based on the integra...