Emergency Echocardiography

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.

Emergency Echocardiography: General ConsiderationsIvan Stankovic, Andreas Hagendorff and Aleksandar N. NeskovicEchocardiography in Acute Myocardial InfarctionAleksandar N. Neskovic, Leonardo Bolognese and Michael H. PicardEchocardiography in Complications of Acute Myocardial InfarctionAleksandar N. Neskovic, Predrag M. Milicevic and Michael H. PicardEchocardiography in Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic ShockMohammed T. Ali and Michael H. PicardEchocardiography in Cardiac ArrestGregory M. Scalia and Julie A. HumphriesEchocardiography in Acute Aortic DissectionTomasz Baron and Frank A. FlachskampfEchocardiography in Acute Pulmonary EmbolismPiotr Pruszczyk and Adam TorbickiEchocardiography in Cardiac TamponadeMauro Pepi, Gloria Tamborini and Manuela MuratoriEchocardiography in Acute Aortic InsufficiencyAsaad A. Khan and Michael H. PicardEchocardiography in Acute Mitral RegurgitationTomasz Baron and Frank A. FlachskampfEchocardiography in Obstruction of Native ValvesDmitriy Kireyev and Michael H. PicardEmergency Echocardiography in Patients with Prosthetic ValvesMauro Pepi and Frank A. FlachskampfEchocardiography in Detecting Cardiac Sources of EmbolismSatoshi Nakatani, Maria Joao Andrade and Justiaan SwanevelderEmergency Intraoperative EchocardiographyPatrick Collier, Zoran B. Popovic, and Brian P. GriffinEchocardiography in Mechanical Circulatory AssistanceDavid G. Platts and Gregory M. ScaliaEchocardiography in Chest TraumaGregory M. Scalia and Agatha KwonStress Echocardiography in the Emergency RoomQuirino Ciampi and Eugenio PicanoPocket-Size Imaging Devices in the Emergency SettingIvan Stankovic and Satoshi NakataniFocused Cardiac Ultrasound (FoCUS)Gabriele Via, Guido Tavazzi and Silvia Mongodi

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