EMERGENCY ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, 2ND EDITION. BOOK+EBOOK

• Emergency Echocardiography: General Considerations
• Echocardiography in Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Echocardiography in Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Echocardiography in Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
• Echocardiography in Cardiac Arrest
• Echocardiography in Acute Aortic Dissection
• Echocardiography in Acute Pulmonary Embolism
• Echocardiography in Cardiac Tamponade
• Echocardiography in Acute Aortic Insufficiency
• Echocardiography in Acute Mitral Regurgitation
• Echocardiography in Obstruction of Native Valves
• Emergency Echocardiography in Patients with Prosthetic Valves
• Echocardiography in Detecting Cardiac Sources of Embolism
• Emergency Intraoperative Echocardiography
• Echocardiography in Mechanical Circulatory Assistance
• Echocardiography in Chest Trauma
• Stress Echocardiography in the Emergency Room
• Pocket-Size Imaging Devices in the Emergency Setting
• Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FoCUS)

Echocardiography is the most cost-effective and versatile imaging technique for assessing patients suffering from unstable cardiovascular diseases. Since 2005, emergency echocardiography has been recognized as a specific field, with particular implications to education, training, and reporting.
Emergency Echocardiography covers the topic and completely updates existing chapters. This second edition utilizes a user friendly new pedagogy and contains new topics of interest to the widening readership from professionals from various specialties, e.g. cardiologists, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, intensivists and fellows. New chapters address emerging topics, including training and educational requirements and provides online learning materials that comprise more than 450 video loops and illustrative case scenarios.

Features
• Contains new chapters that address emerging topics of interest of wide range of medical professionals dealing with cardiovascular emergencies.
• Includes training and educational requirements
• Provides online learning materials that comprise more than 450 video loops and illustrative case scenarios

Authors
• Aleksandar N. Neskovic, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Clinical Hospital Center Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
• Frank A. Flachskampf, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University and Department of Cardiology and Clinical Physiology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
• Michael H. Picard, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA