Echocardiography: A Practical Guide for Reporting PDF

PREFACE

This book is not a systematic textbook about echocardiography. It provides a scheme for the interpretation of a study as an aide-memoire for the experienced echocardiographer or interpreting physician and as a learning tool for the beginner.

Since the first edition, the text has been extensively revised by the inclusion of new guidelines, grading criteria, and normal data, including Doppler tissue imaging. It has also been reformatted to be more easily accessible. New chapters have been added on cardiac resynchronization and the atria. Echocardiography is increasingly used in acute medicine and the intensive therapy unit, and a chapter on checklists in clinical presentations and guides to the role of transoesophageal and stress echocardiography have been included.

This book will be relevant to all echocardiographers, including sonographers, cardiologists, intensivists, and physicians in acute, general and emergency medicine. It will also be relevant to all physicians needing to interpret reports.