Emergency Echocardiography


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Echocardiography is still relatively underused in the management of critically ill and hemodynamically unstable patients. There is a definite trend for favoring echocardiography over invasive assessment in intensive care units, however, clear guidelines are lacking. The author's experience over the last few years reinforced the importance of a book covering this topic. The basis for the creation this book was the fruit of teaching sessions and ward rounds during which the interest and receptiveness for this topic were obvious.
</p>Emergency Echocardiography Review
This is a fantastic book from a fantastic teacher.I have worked with Dr Chenzbraun for nearly three years now and although my opinion may be considered biased by this, I sincerely believe that this book is one of a kind when it comes to bedside, 'on the shop floor' echocardiography.
I usually slip this in my backpocket when I am on call and having worked in a busy University Hospital and now a tertiary cardiac centre, I have had many occasions where this book helped me make correct decisions regarding fluid status, valve incompetence and pericardial disease to significantly improve patient outcome.
Cardiac imaging is not my subspecialty interest, yet I found this book invaluable for the way in which it approaches echocardiography - rather than choose an academic (and perhaps esoteric/intimidating) approach, Dr Chenzbraun has opted to write this from the perspective of the 'jobbing cardiologist'.
The section on TOE is particularly useful (especially the tips and tricks in performing TOE on an unstable patient) and so is the chapter on rapid assessment of hypotensive patients.
The figures are well chosen, almost all of them 'real life' from Dr Chenzbraun's practice and the one on page 42 is a fine example of the thought that has gone into this book. Here the high oesophageal TOE views are shown one above the other as if the reader is withdrawing the probe as he reads the figure legend!
I can go on about each chapter, but suffice to say, if you are a cardiologist in training or even if you are a general medical or emergency care physician aiming for basic competence in echocardiography, this is a worthwhile investment.
Conflicts of interest: none
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