Atlas of Critical Care Echocardiography

I. ESSENTIALS.- Cardiac Physiology in the ICU.- Sepsis.- Mechanical Ventilation.- Ultrasound Physics.- Improving Image Acquisition.- Essentials of Transthoracic Echocardiography.- Essentials of Transesophageal Echocardiography.- Measurements for the ICU Patient.- II. TRANSTHORACIC ECHO ATLAS.- Overview of the Windows.- Parasternal Long Axis.- Parasternal Short Axis.- Apical.- Sub-xyphoid.- Neck.- Focused Rapid Echo Evaluation for Shock.- III. TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHO ATLAS.- Overview of the Windows.- Basal Short Axis.- Four Chamber.- Transgastric Short Axis.- Focused Rapid Echo Evaluation for Shock.- IV. CASE STUDIES.- V. SPECIAL TOPICS.- The Cardiac Surgical Patient.- The Trauma Patient.- Future of Echocardiography in the ICU.

Alexis Salerno, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Daniel J. Haase, MD, RDMS, RCDS 

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Surgery

Director of Critical Care Transesophageal Echocardiography

Program in Trauma and Critical Care 

R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Sarah B. Murthi, MD, RDCS, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery 

Director of the Critical Care Ultrasound Program 

Department of Surgery

Program in Trauma and Critical Care 

R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center 

University of Maryland School of Medicine

University of Maryland Medical Center 

Baltimore, MD 21201, USA