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).

<p>Section I:  Basic Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography</p><p>Introduction to Basic Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography: Examination, Certification, Indications and Contraindications

Transesophageal Echocardiography: Probe Manipulation, Essential Views
Point-Of-Care Transthoracic Echocardiography: Probe Manipulation, Positioning, Essential Views.- </p><p>Basic Ultrasound Physics, Doppler Ultrasound, and Hemodynamic Assessment
Knobology and Image Optimization.- </p><p></p><p>Section II: Echocardiographic Assessment </p><p>Left Ventricular Systolic Function
Regional Ventricular Function
Mitral Valve
Aortic Valve
Right Heart.-  Atria
Diastology
Thoracic Aorta
Pericardium
Perioperative Rescue Echocardiography
Imaging Artifacts, Normal Anatomic Variants, and Common Misdiagnoses
Intracardiac Masses, Devices, and Foreign Bodies
Adult Congenital Heart Disease.- </p><p>Section III: Critical Care Ultrasonography</p><p>Abdominal and Vascular Ultrasound
Volume Assessment and Fluid Responsiveness
Lung Ultrasonography
Shock and Cardiac Arrest
Ultrasound for Vascular Access.- </p>