Written specifically for anesthesiologists, critical care and emergency medicine physicians

Fills educational gaps in the perioperative and critical care echocardiography landscape

Covers multiple subdisciplines in echocardiography

Section I: Basic Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography

Introduction to Basic Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography: Examination, Certification, Indications and Contraindications.- Transesophageal Echocardiography: Probe Manipulation, Essential Views.- Point-Of-Care Transthoracic Echocardiography: Probe Manipulation, Positioning, Essential Views.-

Basic Ultrasound Physics, Doppler Ultrasound, and Hemodynamic Assessment.- Knobology and Image Optimization.-

Section II: Echocardiographic Assessment

Left Ventricular Systolic Function.- Regional Ventricular Function.- Mitral Valve.- Aortic Valve.- Right Heart.- Atria.- Diastology.- Thoracic Aorta.- Pericardium.- Perioperative Rescue Echocardiography.- Imaging Artifacts, Normal Anatomic Variants, and Common Misdiagnoses.- Intracardiac Masses, Devices, and Foreign Bodies.- Adult Congenital Heart Disease.-

Section III: Critical Care Ultrasonography

Abdominal and Vascular Ultrasound.- Volume Assessment and Fluid Responsiveness.- Lung Ultrasonography.- Shock and Cardiac Arrest.- Ultrasound for Vascular Access.-