Emergency echocardiography

Content: 1. Emergency echocardiography : general considerations / Ivan Stankovic, Andreas Hagendorff, and Aleksandar N. Neskovic --
2. Echocardiography in acute myocardial infarction / Aleksandar N. Neskovic, Leonardo Bolognese, and Michael H. Picard --
3. Echocardiography in complications of acute myocardial infarction / Aleksandar N. Neskovic, Predrag M. Milicevic, and Michael H. Picard --
4. Echocardiography in acute heart failure and cardiogenic shock / Mohammed T. Ali and Michael H. Picard --
5. Echocardiography in cardiac arrest / Gregory M. Scalia and Julie A. Humphries --
6. Echocardiography in acute aortic dissection / Tomasz Baron and Frank A. Flachskampf --
7. 7. Echocardiography in acute pulmonary embolism / Piotr Pruszczyk and Adam Torbicki --
8. Echocardiography in cardiac tamponade / Mauro Pepi, Gloria Tamborini, and Manuela Muratori --
9. Echocardiography in acute aortic insufficiency / Asaad A. Khan and Michael H. Picard --
10. Echocardiography in acute mitral regurgitation / Tomasz Baron and Frank A. Flachskampf --
11. Echocardiography in obstruction of native valves / Dmitriy Kireyev and Michael H. Picard --
12. Emergency echocardiography in patients with prosthetic valves / Mauro Pepi and Frank A. Flachskampf --
13. Echocardiography in detecting cardiac sources of embolism / Satoshi Nakatani, Maria Joao Andrade, and Justiaan Swanevelder --
14. Emergency intraoperative echocardiography / Patrick Collier, Zoran B. Popovic, and Brian P. Griffin --
15. Echocardiography in mechanical circulatory assistance / David G. Platts and Gregory M. Scalia --
16. Echocardiography in chest trauma / Gregory M. Scalia and Agatha Y. Kwon --
17. Stress echocardiography in the emergency department / Quirino Ciampi and Eugenio Picano --
18. Pocket-size imaging devices in the emergency setting / Ivan Stankovic and Satoshi Nakatani --
19. Focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) / Gabriele Via, Guido Tavazzi, and Silvia Mongodi.