ISBN : 9780198713623
Concise, fact-based and packed with images and illustrations The EACVI Echo Handbook is the perfect companion for making both every day and complex clinical decisions. Designed and written by leading experts in the field of echocardiography for use in the clinical arena, this practical handbook provides the necessary information for reviewing, or consulting while performing or reporting on an echo or making clinical decisions based on echo findings. Disease-focussed and succinct, it covers the information needed to accurately perform and interpret echocardiograms, including how to set up the echo-machine to optimize an examination and how to perform echocardiographic disease assessment; the clinical indicators, procedures and contraindications. Linked to EACVI recommendations and the EACVI Core Curriculum The EACVI Echo Handbook is an essential and easily accessible manual on using echocardiography for sonographers and trainee cardiologists that should never be left behind when performing an echocardiogram.
PART 1. HOW TO SET UP THE ECHO-MACHINE TO OPTIMIZE YOUR EXAMINATION
PART 2. THE STANDARD TRANSTHORACIC ECHO-EXAMINATION
PART 3. THE STANDARD TRANSOESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION
PART 4. ASSESSMENT OF LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION
PART 5. ASSESSMENT OF DIASTOLIC FUNCTION / DYSFUNCTION
PART 6. ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE
PART 7. HEART VALVE DISEASE
PART 8. CARDIOMYOPATHIES
PART 9. RIGHT HEART FUNCTION AND PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE
PART 10. PERICARDIAL DISEASE
PART 11. CARDIAC TRANSPLANTS
PART 12. CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS
PART 13. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
PART 14. CARDIAC MASSES AND POTENTIAL SOURCES OF EMBOLISM
PART 15. DISEASES OF THE AORTA
PART 16. STRESS ECHO
PART 17. SYSTEMIC DISEASE AND OTHER CONDITIONS