Main description:

Building on the success of the previous edition, this review book includes all of the original content plus several new chapters dedicated to the education and implementation of transthoracic echocardiography and point-of-care ultrasonography. Chapters feature board review-style questions and answers to assist readers with board exam preparation. This book also includes the most up-to-date echocardiography content and practice guidelines.

This book fills an educational gap in the perioperative and critical care echocardiography landscape. It addresses essential perioperative and critical care echocardiography topics in an accessible manner for those who provide acute care and resuscitation in any environment, including the operating room, intensive care unit, and the emergency department.

Essential Echocardiography, 2nd edition, is expertly written for the practitioner with limited knowledge of echocardiography preparing for either the Examination of Special Competence in Basic Perioperative TEE (Basic PTEeXAM) or the Examination of Special Competence in Critical Care Echocardiography (CCEeXAM).

Contents:

A. Section 1: Basic Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography

1. Introduction to Basic Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography: Examination, Certification, Indications and Contraindications

2. Transesophageal Echocardiography: Probe Manipulation, Essential Views

3. Point-Of-Care Transthoracic Echocardiography: Probe Manipulation, Positioning, Essential Views

4. Basic Ultrasound Physics, Doppler Ultrasound, and Hemodynamic Assessment

5. Knobology and Image Optimization

B. Section 2: Echocardiographic Assessment

6. Left Ventricular Systolic Function

7. Regional Ventricular Function

8. Mitral Valve

9. Aortic Valve

10. Right Heart

11. Atria

12. Diastology

13. Thoracic Aorta

14. Pericardium

15. Perioperative Rescue Echocardiography

16. Imaging Artifacts, Normal Anatomic Variants, and Common Misdiagnoses

17. Intracardiac Masses, Devices, and Foreign Bodies

18. Adult Congenital Heart Disease

C. Section 3: Critical Care Ultrasonography

19. Abdominal and Vascular Ultrasound

20. Volume Assessment and Fluid Responsiveness

21. Lung Ultrasonography

22. Shock and Cardiac Arrest

23. Ultrasound for Vascular Access