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.

Foreword.-Preface

Ultrasound Physics
Section 1 TEE and TTE Views.-Transthoracic echocardiography: views and measurements
Transoesophageal echo views and measurements
Artifacts
Section II: Echocardiography in ICU
Echocardiography in ICU: when to use it
Transthoracic echocardiography : technical aspects
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in mechanically ventilated patients: practical aspects
Section III: Heart lung interactions
Heart lung interactions
Section IV: Hemodynamic evaluation
Fluid requirement and fluid-responsiveness
LV global and segmental systolic function including cardiac output
LV diastolic function and PAOPRight ventricular function
Pulmonary artery pressures
Section V: Shocks
Hypovolemia fluid-responsiveness
Cardiogenic shock
Septic shock 
Section VI: Respiratory failures
Respiratory failure
Right to left shunt
Section VII: Pathologies
Pericardial Effusion and tamponade
Echocardiography in ARDS
Pulmonary embolism
Valvulopathy quantification
Infective Endocarditis
Prosthetic valve evaluation
Myocardial infarction and complications
Acute diseases of the thoracic aorta<p></p>