Practical Manual of Echocardiography in the Urgent Setting

Practical Manual of Echocardiography in the Urgent Setting covers the essentials of echocardiography in the acute setting, from ultrasound basics to descriptions of all pertinent echocardiographic views to clear stepwise advice on basic calculations and normal/abnormal ranges. This compact new reference: • Provides step-by-step guidance to acquiring the correct views and making the necessary calculations to accurately diagnose cardiac conditions commonly encountered in urgent settings. • Presents information organized by complaint/initial presentation so that readers can work from this first knowledge of the patient through the steps required to pinpoint a diagnosis. • Covers echo basics, from sound wave characteristics/properties to common device settings to basic ultrasound formulas. • Includes diagnostic algorithms fitted to address the differential diagnosis in the most commonly-encountered clinical scenarios. Designed and written by frontline clinicians with extensive experience treating patients, Practical Manual of Echocardiography in the Urgent Setting is the perfect pocket-sized guide for residents in cardiology, emergency medicine, and hospital medicine; trainees in echocardiography; medical students on cardiology or emergency medicine rotations; technicians, nurses, attending physicians -- anyone who practices in the urgent setting and who needs reliable guidance on echocardiographic views, data and normal/abnormal ranges to aid rapid diagnosis and decision-making at the point of care. Content: Chapter 1 Ultrasound physics (pages 1–22): Vladimir FridmanChapter 2 The transthoracic examination (pages 23–40): Vladimir Fridman and Dennis FinkielsteinChapter 3 Transesophageal echocardiography (pages 41–56): Salim Baghdadi and Balendu C. VasavadaChapter 4 Ventricles (pages 57–78): Deepika Misra and Dayana EslavaChapter 5 Left?sided heart valves (pages 79–112): Muhammad M. Chaudhry, Ravi Diwan, Yili Huang and Furqan H. TejaniChapter 6 Right?sided heart valves (pages 113–128): Michael J. Levine and Vladimir FridmanChapter 7 Prosthetic heart valves (pages 129–140): Karthik Gujja and Vladimir FridmanChapter 8 The great vessels (pages 141–152): Vladimir Fridman and Hejmadi PrabhuChapter 9 Evaluation of the pericardium (pages 153–166): Chirag R. BarbhaiyaChapter 10 Specialty echocardiographic examinations (pages 167–173): Cesare SaponieriChapter 11 Common artifacts (pages 174–182): Padmakshi Singh, Moinakhtar Lala and Sapan TalatiChapter 12 Hypotension and shock (pages 183–194): Sheila Gupta NadimintiChapter 13 Chest pain syndrome (pages 195–203): Sandeep Dhillon and Jagdeep SinghChapter 14 Cardiac causes of syncope and acute neurological events (pages 204–215): Erika R. GehrieChapter 15 Acute dyspnea and heart failure (pages 216–225): Mariusz W. WysoczanskiChapter 16 Evaluation of a new heart murmur (pages 226–233): Vinay Manoranjan PaiChapter 17 Infective endocarditis (pages 234–243): Luis AybarChapter 18 Post?procedural complications (pages 244–247): Vladimir FridmanChapter 19 “Quick echo in the emergency department” (pages 248–252): Dimitry Bosoy and Alexander Tsukerman Practical Manual of Echocardiography in the Urgent Setting In the acute care setting, medicine happens at full speed and with little margin for error. As echocardiography plays an ever more important role in the diagnosis of patients who present with symptoms that suggest a cardiovascular emergency, clinicians must learn to collect, process and act on echocardiographic information as quickly and effectively as possible. Practical Manual of Echocardiography in the Urgent Setting covers the essentials of echocardiography in the acute setting, from ultrasound basics to descriptions of all pertinent echocardiographic views to clear, stepwise advice on basic calculations and normal/abnormal ranges. This compact new reference: Provides step-by-step guidance to acquiring the correct views and making the necessary calculations to accurately diagnose cardiac conditions commonly encountered in urgent settings. Presents information organized by complaint/initial presentation so that readers can work from this first knowledge of the patient through the steps required to pinpoint a diagnosis. Covers echo basics, from sound wave characteristics/properties to common device settings to basic ultrasound formulas Includes diagnostic algorithms fitted to address the differential diagnosis in the most commonlyencountered clinical scenarios. Designed and written by frontline clinicians with extensive experience treating patients, Practical Manual of Echocardiography in the Urgent Setting is the perfect pocket-sized guide for residents in cardiology, emergency medicine, and hospital medicine; trainees in echocardiography; medical students on cardiology or emergency medicine rotations; technicians, nurses, attending physicians—anyone who practices in the urgent setting and who needs reliable guidance on echocardiographic views, data and normal/abnormal ranges to aid rapid diagnosis and decision-making at the point of care. RELATED TITLES: Kacharava, et al: Pocket Guide to Echocardiography; ISBN: 978-0-470-67444-4 Sun, et al: Practical Handbook of Echocardiography: 101 Case Studies; ISBN: 978-1-4051-9556-0 This proposed book would cover all aspects of basic echocardiography : the nuts and bolts of ultrasound imaging, all of the views involved in an echocardiogram, step by step guides on how to perform all basic calculations and the normal/abnormal ranges for such calculations, descriptions of views/calculations to perform in any cardiac emergency situations. More importantly, it will include specific diagnostic algorithms fitted to address the differential diagnosis in a variety clinical scenarios. This book is aimed at everybody who is learning to perform and interpret echocardiograms