Practical Manual of Echocardiography in the Urgent Setting

This proposed book would cover all aspects of basic echocardiography: the nuts and bolts of ultrasound imaging, all of the views involved in an echocardiogram, step by step guides on how to perform all basic calculations and the normal/abnormal ranges for such calculations, descriptions of views/calculations to perform in any cardiac emergency situations. More importantly, it will include specific diagnostic algorithms fitted to address the differential diagnosis in a variety clinical scenarios. This book is aimed at everybody who is learning to perform and interpret echocardiograms. This includes cardiology fellows in training, internal medicine physicians, emergency medicine and anesthesia specialists who read/perform echocardiographic studies in the acute setting.