Title Details: | |
Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography |
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Other Titles: |
Emergency Ultrasonography manual |
Authors: |
Zakynthinos, Epaminondas Tsolaki, Vasiliki Vazgiourakis, Vasileios Zakynthinos, George E. Zygoulis, Paris |
Reviewer: |
Makris, Demosthenes |
Subject: | MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > HEALTH SCIENCES > MEDICINE > EMERGENCY MEDICINE MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > HEALTH SCIENCES > MEDICINE > INTERNAL MEDICINE > CARDIOLOGY |
Keywords: |
Ultrasound
Echocardiography Transcranial Doppler Lung ultrasound Vascular ultrasound Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
Ultrasonography is a fundamental tool in every day
clinical practice in Emergency Medicine and Critical
Care. The skills in order to handle this tool in the critical
care patients at its best should be obtained after standardized
education. The advantages of Critical Care Ultrasonography
have long been identified, as it can answer
clinical questions and guide management (diagnostics,
invasive procedures, monitoring). As it happens
with every technological advancement, in order
to gain the most benefit clinicians should combine
knowledge gained from special treatment, with the
skills. Thus, the potential for specific education on acquisition
and interpretation of ultrasonographic images
from every organ of the human body should be provided
to every Critical Care physician. Moreover, every
educational program should be accompanied with an
integrated approach of theoretical education on ultrasonography.
The present manual aims at providing the
basic theoretical knowledge on ultrasonography, so
that Critical Care Ultrasound can become a prerequisite
examination, combined with clinical evaluation of
the patients, to reach the diagnosis and monitor the efficacy
of treatments followed. Special attention should
be paid in the hemodynamic evaluation of the patients,
as hemodynamic instability and its treatment are everyday
problems that critical care doctors must deal
with. Therefore, using critical care ultrasonography,
the physician should be able to differentiate shock (obstructive,
cardiogenic, distributive, hypovolemic), manipulate
ventilator settings, guide the weaning process.
In the present manual, the first three chapters are
dedicated to the basics in ultrasonography and the
principles of echocardiographic image acquisition in
transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography.
The rest seven chapters refer to the basic pathological
conditions of the heart that a critical care doctor should
be able to identify. Chapters 11 and 12 concern lung ultrasonography
and transcranial ultrasound, that represent
fundamental skills for the physicians dealing with
critical care patients in the Intensive Care Unit and the
Emergency Department, as they can substitute chest
x-rays and computed tomography scans, preventing
the patients from being exposed to unnecessary radiation
and reducing unnecessary patient transfer.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Kalogeridi, Violeta |
Graphic Editors: |
Tsakmaki, Eleni |
Type: |
Postgraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 12-07-2022 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-5667-35-1 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-29 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/8350 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Zakynthinos, E., Tsolaki, V., Vazgiourakis, V., Zakynthinos, G., & Zygoulis, P. (2022). Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography [Postgraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-29 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Basic Ultrasonographic principles 2. Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) 3. Transesophageal Ultrasonography (TEE) 4. Evaluation of the left ventricle (systolic/diastolic function) 5. Evaluation of the right ventricle 6. Valvulopathies 7. Left atrium 8. Aorta- Acute Aortic Syndromes 9. Pericarditis 10. Hemodynamic monitoring using ultrasonography 11. Chest-Lung ultrasonography 12. Transcranial ultrasonography 13. Vessel ultrasonography 14. Abdominal ultrasonography 15. Ulstrasonography in Trauma. FAST (Focused Assessment With Sonography in Trauma) protocol Additional Material |
Number of pages |
342 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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