Echocardiography for Intensivists
Echocardiography has become an invaluable tool in intensive care medicine because of its ease of use and instantaneous provision of precise information on cardiovascular functional anatomy at the bedside. This book contains all the information that reader
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Armando Sarti F. Luca Lorini •
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Echocardiography for Intensivists Forewords by A. Raffaele De Gaudio and Alfredo Zuppiroli
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Editors Armando Sarti Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Santa Maria Nuova Hospital Florence Italy
ISBN 978-88-470-2582-0 DOI 10.1007/978-88-470-2583-7
F. Luca Lorini Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo Bergamo Italy
ISBN 978-88-470-2583-7
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Foreword by A. Raffaele De Gaudio
Since its beginning in the early 1950s by Edler and Hertz, echocardiography has developed from simple amplitude and brightness modes, through motion mode, to the present day real-time 2D and 3D imaging modalities. Its role has extended beyond cardiology into the operating rooms as a perioperative monitor and into critical care and emergency medicine. Far from being competitive or conflicting, the use of this technique by intensivists and cardiologists is complementary. In critically ill patients, echocardiography provides useful and reliable information, in a noni
