Armando Sarti graduated from the University of Florence, Italy before becoming a certified specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care (1983), Cardiology (1988), and Pediatrics (1995). Since 1982 he has served as an anesthetist and intensivist at many hospitals in Florence before becoming head of the department of anesthesia and intensive care at the Burlo Garofolo Mother and Child Hospital, Trieste, Italy.

He is currently Director of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Emergency and Critical Care Department of Santa Maria Annunziata Hospital, Florence, Italy. Throughout his career, he has used cardiovascular and pleuro-pulmonary ultrasound as an essential tool to guide the diagnosis and management of cardiocirculatory and respiratory failure. He has devoted his efforts to the study, practice, and development of ultrasound to treat patients in bedside and emergency contexts, and in both medical and surgical intensive care units. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 publications on emergency, anesthesia, and intensive care, in national and international literature. He co-edited, with Dr. Luca F. Lorini, the first English edition of the present book "Echocardiography for Intensivists", published by Springer in 2012.

F. Luca Lorinigraduated from the University of Pavia, Italy and specialized in Anesthesia and Intensive Care. He served as an anesthetist and intensivist in Bergamo, Italy, until he became head of the department of anesthesia and intensive care at the Clinica Montevergine of Mercogliano, Italy, in 1997. In 2001 he moved back to Bergamo to lead the anesthesia service and the ICU at the Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo. He is currently chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Italy.Throughout his career, he has investigated the use of cardiovascular and pleuro-pulmonary ultrasound to facilitate the diagnosis and management of cardiocirculatory and respiratory failure. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications on anesthesia and intensive care in national and international literature. He is co-editor, with Dr. Armando Sarti, of the first English edition of the present book "Echocardiography for Intensivists," published by Springer in 2012.

Meets the needs of intensive care physicians, anesthesiologists, and emergency physicians

Guides the reader from the basics of echocardiography through to application of techniques in acute care practice

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New revised and updated edition featuring additional chapters

I ULTRASOUND AND USE OF THE ECHO MACHINE.- 1 EssentialPhysics of Ultrasound and Use of the Ultrasound Machine.- II STANDARD ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION.- 2 Ultrasound Morphology of the Heart: Transthoracic Examination.- 3 Transthoracic Echocardiography in the ICU: The Patient Who Is Difficult To Study.- 4 Ultrasound Morphology of the Heart: Transesophageal Examination.- 5 Three-DimensionaL Echocardiography.- 6 Speckle Tracing for Left and right ventricles.- III ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONAL ECHO-ANATOMY.- 7 The Left Ventricle. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients.- 8 The Right Ventricle and Pulmonary Artery. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients.- 9 Left and Right Atria. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients.- 10 Pericardium and Pericardial Diseases.- 11 The Aorta. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients.- 12 Inferior and Superior Venae Cavae. Frequent Imaging in ICU Patients.- 13 Ischemia and Myocardial infarction.- 14 The Cardiomyopathies.- 15 Cor Pulmonale and Pulmonary Hypertension.- 16 Mitral Valve.- 17 The Aortic Valve.- 18 Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valves.- 19 Endocarditis.- 20 Prosthetic Valve Evaluation.- 21 Cardiac Tumors and Masses.- 22 Congenital Septal Abnormalities in the Adult Patient.- 23 Essential Pediatric Echocardiography.- IV ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN THE IC AND OR: BASIC AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS.- 24 Echocardiographic History, Echocardiographic Monitoring, and Goal-Directed, Focus- Oriented, and Comprehensive Examination.- 25 Intraoperative Echocardiography in Cardiac Surgery.- 26 General Hemodynamic Assessment.- 27 Contrast Echocardiography in the ICU and OR.- 28 Echo-Guided Therapy for Myocardial Ischemia.- 29 Hypovolemia and Fluid Responsiveness.- 30 ARDS, ALI, Mechanical Ventilation, and Weaning.- 31 Hypotension.- 32 Suspicion of Pulmonary Embolism.- 33 Suspicion of Acute Aortic Diseases.- 34 Chest Pain.- 35 Acute Dyspnea.- 36 Unexplained Hypoxemia.- 37 Sepsis and Septic Shock.- 38 Chest Trauma.- 39 Acute Atrial Fibrillation and Other Arrhythmias.- 40 Ultrasound Practice for ICU Nurses.- 41 Multiorgan Donor and Transplant Patients.- 42 New-Onset Cardiac Murmur in the Unstable Patient.-43 ICU Echocardiography and Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring.- 44 Ventricle- Arterial coupling.- 45 Non-cardiac Surgery: Perioperative Echocardiography and Lung.- 46 Perioperative echocardiography for Aortic Procedures.- 47 Obstetric Echocardiography.- V ULTRASOUND IN THE ICU: OTHER APPLICATIONS.- 48 Echocardiography and Advanced Life Support.- 49 Central and Peripheral Vein Cannulation.- 50 Essential Ultrasonography for Venous Thrombosis.- 51 Lung and Pleural Ultrasonography in Emergency and Intensive Care.- 52 Ultrasound and the Morbidly-Obese Patient.- 53 Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma.- 54 Renal Ultrasound and Echo-Color Doppler Techniques in Kidney Failure.- 55 Ultrasound for Percutaneous Tracheostomy.- 56 Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography in Emergency and Intensive Care.- 57 Ultrasonography of the Optic Nerve.- 58 Muscle Ultrasound for the ICU patient.- 59 Fever of unknown origin and Ultrasound.- 60 US-guided Regional Analgesia in the ICU.