ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN ICU

1. Ultrasound Physics
2. Transthoracic Echocardiography: Views and Measurements
3. Transoesophageal Echo Views and Measurements
4. Artifacts
5. Echocardiography in the ICU: When to Use It?
6. Transthoracic Echocardiography: Technical Aspects
7. Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Practical Aspects
8. Heart–Lung Interactions
9. Fluid Requirement and Fluid Responsiveness
10. LV Global and Segmental Systolic Function Including Cardiac Output
11. LV Diastolic Function and PAOP
12. Right Ventricular Function
13. Pulmonary Artery Pressures
14. Hypovolemic Shock
15. Cardiogenic Shock
16. Septic Shock
17. Respiratory Failure
18. Right to Left Shunt
19. Pericardial Effusion and Tamponade
20. Echocardiography in ARDS
21. Pulmonary Embolism
22. Valvulopathy Quantification
23. Infective Endocarditis
24. Prosthetic Valve Evaluation
25. Myocardial Infarction and Complications
26. Acute Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta

This book offers readers a better understanding of how to perform echocardiography in their daily intensive care unit (ICU) work. With numerous practical examples highlighting the indices and hemodynamic monitoring profiles that physicians could encounter, it considers echocardiography not merely as a simple imaging technique, but as a practical diagnostic and hemodynamic monitoring tool. The booklet is richly illustrated with figures explaining how to perform echo, and includes numerous tables, simple equations and normal and abnormal values.
Echocardiography in ICU, a pocket guide written by the leading international experts in the field, is an excellent source of information and guidance for all residents and physicians working in ICU, emergency medicine, anesthesia and cardiology as well.

Features
• A pocket guide for quick reference
• Offers practical support to ICU, EM and anesthesia residents and physicians
• Richly illustrated with figures explaining how to perform echo
• Written by expert clinicians for clinicians
• Focused on the common conditions and problems encountered at the bedside
• Discusses applications of echocardiography in ICU

Author
Michel Slama, professor in the ICU in Amiens, head of the medical ICU, chairman of Critical Care Medicine, former medical director of Amiens Hospital, and former first vice president of the University of Amiens university board. He has more than 130 publications to his name, mainly on echocardiography and been invited to participate in over 200 conferences on echocardiography in ICU around the globe. A leading expert in the field, he is one of the authors of the international guidelines on echocardiography in critical care.