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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