Cardiac Electrosonography

This book focuses on a new clinical algorithmic approach to acute patient care based on the combination of electrocardiography (ECG) and echocardiography performance and interpretation, now renamed: ECG-sonography or electrosonography. The combination of these two basic skills improves patient management by healthcare providers in the acute setting. ECG is one of the oldest diagnostic tools in evaluating patients with cardiovascular symptoms and multiple and complex criteria for its interpretation have been developed over the past decades. The use of point of care ultrasound based on handheld echocardiography has recently emerged as an important clinical tool, particularly in the emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit. These studies are mainly performed by non-cardiologists including intensivists and ED physicians in addition to the physical exam and standard diagnostic tests such as the chest X-ray and laboratory tests to evaluate patients quickly and efficiently.


Cardiac Electrosonography provides a new algorithmic approach to ECG interpretation and a simple tutorial of echocardiography performance and interpretation with a major focus on handheld echocardiography. It includes representative cases of patients presenting to the ED with a specific, acute cardiovascular symptom and demonstrates appropriate use of both ECG and echocardiography to improve patient management and outcome. It therefore represents an essential guide to this hybrid procedure for all practicing and trainee cardiologists and all healthcare professionals who manage these patients.

Dr.  Eyal Herzog is a professor of Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York where he was the director of the Critical Care Cardiology and Echocardiogrphy for over two decades at Mount Sinai- St. Luke’s Hospital. He is currently the Director of the Department of Cardiology at Hadassah Medical Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, Israel.


Over the past three decades, Dr. Herzog has developed highly respected methods for improving cardiovascular healthcare through the application of novel algorithmic pathways that simplify the diagnosis, treatment, and management of cardiovascular disease.  

Dr. Herzog is internationally recognized for his leadership in Critical Care Cardiology and Echocardiography. He had authored many textbooks, including the “The Cardiac Care Survival Guide” and “Herzog’s CCU book,” that became bestsellers in the United States and around the globe. 


Dr. Herzog is an outstanding teacher. He has been awarded as the “Teacher of the year” and “Physician of the year” numerous times by the Department of Medicine and the Division of Cardiology at Mount Sinai.  


At Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, Dr. Herzog has developed a new and novel pathway for the diagnosis and management of pulmonary embolism, which serves as a theme for his book “Pulmonary Embolism”.  


The Cardiology department that he currently leads for the past 3 years in Jerusalem, Israel was named as “The World’s Best Specialized Hospitals” by Newsweek for these years.


Dr.  David Leibowitz is an associate professor of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and is the Director of Echocardiography at Mount Scopus, Hadassah Medical Center, inJerusalem, Israel. 


He graduated cum laude from Columbia College in New York City and received his MD degree from New York University. He was trained in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and in Cardiology and advanced Echocardiography at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York where he is currently a visiting professor. 


Over the past two decades, Dr. Leibowitz has developed the highly respected and prestigious clinical cardiology and echocardiography services at the Mount Scopus hospital of Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem which is an integral part of the Hadassah Cardiology program which was named as “The World’s Best Specialized Hospitals” by Newsweek for the past three years. 


Dr. Leibowitz is internationally recognized for his leadership in clinical cardiology and echocardiography. He had authored hundreds of peer review papers,abstracts, and book chapters in these fields. 


Dr. Leibowitz is an outstanding teacher and he has been awarded numerous teaching awards from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


Dr. Yair Elitzur is the associate director of the division of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Hadassah Medical Center, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel, and is the director and founder of the electrophysiology services at the Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. 


Over the past decade Dr. Elitzur has developed the clinical cardiology and electrophysiology services at the Mount Scopus hospital of Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem which is an integral part of the Hadassah Cardiology program, named as “The World’s Best Specialized Hospitals” by Newsweek for the past three years. 


He is a graduate of the Ben Gurion medical school in Beer Sheva, Israel and was trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. He completed an advanced cardiac electrophysiology fellowship in both Israel and in Toronto, Canada. 


His main academic interests and publications are in the fields of coronary artery disease, cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac pacemakers, and advanced cardiac devices therapy. 


He was awarded numerous teaching awards for his outstanding teaching by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and by the Hadassah Medical Center.