Hemodynamic Monitoring Using Echocardiography in the Critically. Vol.3

Professor Daniel De Backer graduated in internal medicine (1991) and in intensive care medicine (1992) at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, where he also obtained his PhD in the field of hemodynamics (1996). He combines clinical, research, and teaching activities in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital, Brussels. His main fields of investigation are sepsis, organ dysfunction, acute circulatory failure and its treatment, oxygen transport, hemodynamic monitoring, hepatosplanchnic circulation, and microcirculatory disorders. He has authored 200 articles, editorials, and book chapters and is an associate editor of several journals. Since 2005, Prof. De Backer has organized an annual course on echocardiography in intensive care medicine in Brussels.

The hemodynamic evaluation of patients with acute circulatory failure and respiratory failure was usually performed using invasive procedures but recent years have witnessed the onset of less invasive monitoring devices. Echocardiography can be used both for diagnosis and management of circulatory failure and respiratory failure.
The hemodynamic evaluation by echocardiography is based on the integration of simple indices that can be easily acquired within a few minutes at bedside. The scope of this book is to provide the essential information to readers in order to allow optimal hemodynamic management guided by echocardiography

First book covering non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring of critical care patients using echocardiography Providing essential informations to allow optimal hemodynamic management guided by echocardiography

- Echeocardiography in the critically-ill: an overview.
- Principles of ultrasound and principal views: Knobology: how should I set my echosystem.- Transthoracic echocardiography: 2-D and Doppler.- Transesophageal echocardiography: 2-D and Doppler.
- Hemodynamic assessment: Heart lung interactions.- Measurement of cardiac output.- Assessment of preload.-Evaluation of left ventricular systoclic function (global and basic regional).-Funtional asessment of the right ventricle (pump function and pulmonary artery pressure).
- Diagnosis and management of circulatory failure: Diagnosis the cause of circulatory failure (introducing overview-decision algorhythm).- Septic shock.-Cardiogenic shock (AMI LV/RV, fulminant myocarditis, toxic overdose, valves).- Right ventricular failure( Pulmonary embolism, acute and chronic cor pulmonate).- Cardiac tamponade.
- Diagnosis and management of acute respiratory failure: How to differentiate hydrostatic from non hydrostatic pulmonary edema?- Cardiogenic pulmonary edema.- ARDS.
- Specific situations: Thoracic trauma.- The unstable patient after cardiac surgery.- Acute aortic syndrome.
- What should I know/ How to learn echocardiography
- Conclusions and perspectives