Offers comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of ultrasound use in critical care to enable practitioners to use ultrasound for vascular and therapeutic procedures. The cardiac ultrasound chapters help readers assess and monitor s patient's cardiopulmonary status noninvasively.

Point of Care UltrasoundApplications in Critical Care MedicineShould Intensivist do the Ultrasonography: Guidelines, Qualification, Experience and Training?Basic Physics of Ultrasound and the Doppler PhenomenonModes of UltrasonographyDoppler ImagingUltrasound for Vascular AccessAirway UltrasoundUltrasound-guided Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy and CricothyrotomyLung UltrasoundChest Ultrasound in Acute Respiratory Distress SyndromeUltrasonography in Cardiac EvaluationVolume Status Assessment and Predicting Volume ResponsivenessUltrasound in Cardiopulmonary ResuscitationUltrasound-guided Therapeutic Procedures in Intensive Care UnitUltrasonography in Neurocritical CareFocused Assessment Sonography of TraumaAbdominal Ultrasonography in the Intensive Care UnitBlue, Falls, and Sesame ProtocolUltrasound of DiaphragmUltrasonography for Assessment of Muscles Dysfunction in ICUUltrasonography in Deep Vein ThrombosisClinical Case ScenariosInfection Control and Legal Issues in ICU Sonography Index