Tag: ultrasound
Point of Care Ultrasound Made Easy
Point of Care Ultrasound Made Easy is an exciting and innovative book that aims to teach all healthcare professionals how to do simple and clinically relevant ultrasound scanning at the point of care. This book will help... read more
The Value of Echocardiography Combined with Lung Ultrasound to Evaluate COVID-19 Pneumonia
In COVID-19 pneumonia patients, the pulmonary arterial pressure and LUS are positively correlated. For those who are unable to be transferred or relocated, the pulmonary arterial pressure may be measured to reflect the degree... read more
Image-Guided Management of COVID-19 Lung Disease
This book offers a detailed and up-to-date overview of image-guided diagnostics in COVID-19 lung disease. A range of image-guided CT and ultrasound procedures in different chest regions are described. For each procedure,... read more
Thoracic Ultrasound and Integrated Imaging
This book focuses on thoracic ultrasound, a versatile, diagnostically accurate, low-cost, noninvasive and non-ionizing imaging technique. Thanks to portable devices, the method can be used to provide quick and accurate diagnoses... read more
A New Acronym to Select Eligible Patients for ECPR
Rhythm check three - A2BCDE3! - A new acronym to select eligible patients for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) is an ultra-invasive approach for the... read more
Without POCUS we are Failing our CHF Patients
In its most basic sense, the physical exam is a method of inferring the state of health of the internal organs. For two centuries, it has been accomplished through auscultation, inspection, palpation, and percussion. These... read more
Atlas of Chest Imaging in COVID-19 Patients
This book presents X-ray and CT findings of patients with 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pneumonia in early, progressive, critical, and recover stage. It starts with a general review of CT features of new coronavirus... read more
Preoperative POCUS to Identify Frailty and Predict Postoperative Outcomes
Similar to computed tomography measurements of psoas muscle area, preoperative ultrasound measurements of quadriceps depth shows promise in discriminating between frail and not-frail patients before surgery. It was also associated... read more
The Ultimate Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Procedures
This comprehensive book provides an in-depth examination of a broad range of procedures that benefit from ultrasound guidance in the point-of-care setting. It covers common procedures such as ultrasound-guided central... read more
POCUS in Cardiorespiratory Arrest
The POCUS-CA (Point-of-care ultrasound in cardiac arrest) is a diagnostic tool in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department setting. The literature indicates that in the patient in a cardiorespiratory arrest it... read more
The Exciting Future of Our Physical Exam with POCUS
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is the natural progression of what Laennec started over 200 years ago, a tool he would undoubtedly add to his diagnostic repertoire were he able to, as he did with Auenbrugger’s percussion... read more
Point of Care Venous Doppler Ultrasound
Accurate assessment of the hemodynamic status is vital for appropriate management of patients with critical illness. As such, there has been a constant quest for reliable and non-invasive bedside tools to assess and monitor... read more
State of the Art Techniques in Critical Care Echocardiography
This book covers all aspects of modern techniques used in the rapidly developing field of adult critical care echocardiography, 3D transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, myocardial tissue velocity and deformation... read more
Prehospital FAST Reduces Admission Time and Treatment
The focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) exam is an established trauma care diagnostic procedure. Ultrasound performed during prehospital care can improve early treatment and management of the patients. According... read more
Kidney Imaging with Point-of-Care Doppler Ultrasonography
We read with great interest the article by Caroli et al., in which they meticulously discuss the role of imaging in elucidating both structural and functional aspects of kidney disease. Herein, we would like to briefly comment... read more
Understanding Brain Injury in Pediatric ECMO
Brain injury is frequent in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients, although the majority of survivors have favorable neurocognitive outcomes. More research is needed in order to understand the etiology of such... read more
Diaphragm Ultrasonography in ICU: Why, How, and When To Use It?
An overview of the principles and current applications of diaphragm ultrasound and innovative ultrasound-based techniques. In the ICU, ultrasound is starting to be acknowledged as a useful tool for studying the diaphragm.... read more