Echocardiography in ICU

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Ultrasound Physics

   • Stephen J. Huang

   Pages 1-23

3. TEE and TTE Views

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Transthoracic Echocardiography: Views and Measurements

      • Stephen J. Huang

      Pages 27-46

   3. Transoesophageal Echo Views and Measurements

      • Sam Orde

      Pages 47-63

   4. Artifacts

      • Philippe Vignon

      Pages 65-70

4. Echocardiography in ICU

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Echocardiography in the ICU: When to Use It?

      • Philippe Vignon

      Pages 73-81

   3. Transthoracic Echocardiography: Technical Aspects

      • Michel Slama

      Pages 83-85

   4. Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Practical Aspects

      • Michel Slama

      Pages 87-95

5. Heart Lung Interactions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Heart–Lung Interactions

      • Antoine Vieillard-Baron

      Pages 99-106

6. Hemodynamic Evaluation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Fluid Requirement and Fluid Responsiveness

      • Michel Slama

      Pages 109-120

   3. LV Global and Segmental Systolic Function Including Cardiac Output

      • Daniel De Backer

      Pages 121-131

   4. LV Diastolic Function and PAOP

      • Anthony McLean

      Pages 133-137

   5. Right Ventricular Function

      • Antoine Vieillard-Baron

      Pages 139-144

   6. Pulmonary Artery Pressures

      • Daniel De Backer

      Pages 145-150

7. Shocks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Hypovolemic Shock

      • Michel Slama

      Pages 153-155

This book offers readers a better understanding of how to perform echocardiography in their daily intensive care unit (ICU) work. With numerous practical examples highlighting the indices and hemodynamic monitoring profiles that physicians could encounter, it considers echocardiography not merely as a simple imaging technique, but as a practical diagnostic and hemodynamic monitoring tool. The booklet is richly illustrated with figures explaining how to perform echo, and includes numerous tables, simple equations and normal and abnormal values.

Echocardiography in ICU, a pocket guide written by the leading international experts in the field, is an excellent source of information and guidance for all residents and physicians working in ICU, emergency medicine, anesthesia and cardiology as well.

• Critical care
• Hemodynamics
• Doppler
• Ultrasounds
• Hemodynamic monitoring profiles

“I recommend this book to all intensive care physicians. As echocardiography has gained popularity in the ICU and has become essential for bedside hemodynamic monitoring, this book should be placed in the ICU to guide the echocardiographic examination of critically ill patients.” (Won Ho Kim, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 132 (3), 2021)

• Medical ICU, University Hospital, Amiens, France

  Michel Slama

Michel Slama, professor in the ICU in Amiens, head of the medical ICU, chairman of Critical Care Medicine, former medical director of Amiens Hospital, and former first vice president of the University of Amiens university board. He has more than 130 publications to his name, mainly on echocardiography and been invited to participate in over 200 conferences on echocardiography in ICU around the globe. A leading expert in the field, he is one of the authors of the international guidelines on echocardiography in critical care.

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