Hemodynamic Focused Echocardiography

Imaging the aorta is an advanced skill, although important pathology may be identified by the critical care sonographer when undertaking focused transthoracic echocardiography and basic abdominal ultrasound. This chapter outlines the appearances of the normal aorta in focused echocardiography and abdominal ultrasound. The ultrasonic appearances of an aortic aneurysm and dissection are described.

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Guiding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation with Focused Echocardiography: A Report of Five Cases

Prehospital Emergency Care ◽

10.1080/10903127.2019.1626955 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 297-302 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Rachel B. Liu ◽

Sandy Bogucki ◽

Evie G. Marcolini ◽

Connie Y. Yu ◽

Charles R. Wira ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽

Focused Echocardiography

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The use of critical care echocardiography in peri-arrest and cardiac arrest scenarios: Pros, cons and what the future holds

Journal of the Intensive Care Society ◽

10.1177/1751143720936998 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 175114372093699 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Luke Flower ◽

Olusegun Olusanya ◽

Pradeep R Madhivathanan

Keyword(s):

Cardiac Arrest ◽

Critical Care ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Patient Care ◽

Core Competence ◽

Point Of Care ◽

Response To Treatment ◽

Monitoring Tool ◽

Critical Care Echocardiography ◽

Focused Echocardiography

Echocardiography is being increasingly deployed as a diagnostic and monitoring tool in the critically ill. This rise in popularity has led to its recommendation as a core competence in intensive care, with several training routes available. In the peri-arrest and cardiac arrest population, point of care focused echocardiography has the potential to transform patient care and improve outcomes. Be it via diagnosis of shock aetiology and reversibility or assessing response to treatment and prognostication. This narrative review discusses current and future applications of echocardiography in this patient group and provides a structure with which one can approach such patients.

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Focused echocardiography in cardio‐oncology

Echocardiography ◽

10.1111/echo.14800 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 37 (8) ◽

pp. 1149-1158 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kalliopi Keramida ◽

Dimitrios Farmakis ◽

Teresa López Fernández ◽

Patrizio Lancellotti

Keyword(s):

Focused Echocardiography

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Does physician experience influence the interpretability of focused echocardiography images performed by a pocket device?

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine ◽

10.1186/s13049-015-0122-2 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Xavier Bobbia ◽

Christophe Pradeilles ◽

Pierre Géraud Claret ◽

Camille Soullier ◽

Patricia Wagner ◽

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Keyword(s):

Focused Echocardiography

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Organinteraktionen: Herz und Lunge – Management des akuten Rechtsherzversagens

DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift ◽

10.1055/s-0042-117249 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 142 (18) ◽

pp. 1357-1364 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Guido Michels ◽

Roman Pfister

Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Therapy Monitoring ◽

Right Heart Failure ◽

Underlying Disease ◽

Individual Therapy ◽

Treatment Goals ◽

Right Heart ◽

Non Invasive ◽

The Right ◽

Focused Echocardiography

AbstractThe pathophysiology and the management of patients with acute right heart failure are very complex. The bed-side focused echocardiography is the basis of differential diagnosis and acute diagnosis. Individual therapy monitoring is complex due to the strong preload dependence of the right ventricle and the limitation of non-invasive estimation of pulmonary-vascular hemodynamics, so that the indication for a pulmonary artery catheter should be liberal in acute right heart failure. The treatment goals of acute right heart failure are the treatment of the underlying disease or triggering factors in combination with individualized optimization of hemodynamic tailored to current right-ventricular function.

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