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Record Nr.

UNINA9910874682803321

Autore

Sreedharan Roshni

Titolo

Critical Care Echocardiography : A Self- Assessment Book / / edited by Roshni Sreedharan, Sandeep Khanna, Ajit Moghekar, Siddharth Dugar, Patrick Collier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-45731-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (536 pages)

Disciplina

616.1207543

Soggetti

Anesthesiology

Critical care medicine

Emergency medicine

Internal medicine

Surgery

Intensive Care Medicine

Emergency Medicine

Internal Medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Ultrasound Physics -- Doppler -- Knobology, Image Acquisition, Optimization and Artifacts -- LV Segments and Chamber Quantification -- LV systolic function -- Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in the Critically Ill -- Right Ventricular Assessment -- TEE in the Critically Ill -- Valvular Assessment – Mitral and Aortic Valves -- Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve -- Hemodynamics -- Heart lung interaction and response to preload -- Lung Ultrasonography -- Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Embolism, and ARDS -- Pericardial Diseases -- Adult Congenital Heart Disease -- Abdominal Ultrasound -- Vascular Ultrasound -- Devices, Foreign Bodies, and Intra Cardiac Masses -- Echocardiography for Cardiac Arrest -- Ultrasonography for Procedural Guidance -- States of Shock.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides practice questions in a case-based format to prepare for the National Board of Echocardiography’s examination to



assess “Special Competence in Critical Care Echocardiography”. Focused on the exam's core topics, this textbook caters to physicians who are preparing for the Critical Care Echocardiography board examination. Defining features of each chapter include case based scenarios with videos and supporting images, meaningful and relevant multiple-choice questions, key take-aways and a summary. This book is the product of a multidisciplinary collaboration between ICU physicians (Pulmonary, Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology), Cardiologists, and Anesthesiologists. This book meets the needs of physicians from various disciplines preparing for the critical care echocardiography board examination. .