Hemodynamic Monitoring Using Echocardiography in the Critically Ill
The hemodynamic evaluation of patients with acute circulatory failure and respiratory failure has in the past usually been performed using invasive procedures but in recent years less invasive monitoring devices have been introduced. Hemodynamic evaluatio
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Daniel De Backer • Bernard P. Cholley Michel Slama • Antoine Vieillard-Baron Philippe Vignon (Editors)
Hemodynamic Monitoring Using Echocardiography in the Critically Ill
Editors Daniel De Backer Department of Intensive Care Erasme University Hospital Université Libre de Bruxelles Route de Lennik 808 1070 Brussels Belgium [email protected] Michel Slama Unité de Réanimation Médicale Service de Néphrologie CHU Sud 80054 Amiens Cedex 1 France [email protected]
Bernard P. Cholley Service d’Anesthésie-Réanimation Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou 20 rue Leblanc 75908 Paris, cedex 15 France [email protected] Antoine Vieillard-Baron Intensive Care Unit University Hospital Ambroise Paré Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris 9 avenue Charles de Gaulle 92104, Boulogne Cedex France [email protected]
Philippe Vignon Medical-surgical ICU and Clinical Investigation Center INSERM 0801, CHU Dupuytren 2 Ave. Martin Luther King 87000, Limoges, France and Université de Limoges, 2 rue du Dr. Marcland, 87000 Limoges France [email protected]
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Preface
Echocardiography in the Critically Ill: Not Just a Diagnostic Tool! Over the past decade, Doppler echocardiography has established itself as an essential element in evaluating hemodynamically unstable patients in intensive care units, operating rooms, and emergency departments. Why has echocardiography become such an important clinical tool in the hemodynamic evaluation of unstable patients? First, echocardiography is a unique imaging modality that provides both anatomical and functional information about th
