Echocardiography for Intensivists

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sarti, Armando (Editor), Lorini, F. Luca (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Radiology.; Critical care medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Ultrasound.; Emergency Medicine.

Echocardiography has become an invaluable tool in intensive care medicine because of its ease of use and instantaneous provision of precise information on cardiovascular functional anatomy at the bedside. This book contains all the information that readers will require in order to perform echocardio...

Table of Contents:

• Section 1: Ultrasonography and use of the Echo Machine
• Section 2: Standard Echocardiographic Examination
• Section 3: Essential Functional Echo-anatomy.- Section 4: Echoradiography in the Intensive care Unit and Operating Room: Basic and Advanced Applications
• Section 5: Ultrasonography in the Intensive Care Unit: Other Applications
• Appendix: Formulae and Normal Values. Normal Values and Useful Formulae in the Intensive Care Unit.