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Intensive Care Echocardiography

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The interplay between cardiac function and general systemic disturbances is at the core of intensive care practice. Echocardiography is becoming ‘mainstream’, in that many ICUs now have their own machine and the objective is to utilize it during, as well as outside, regular working hours. Clinical urgency demands application at any time. Echocardiography frequently yields important diagnostic information, non-invasively, usually rapidly, and it can be readily reapplied as the situation demands. It has evolved from being a useful adjunct in the past to what is now an indispensable tool in the management of the critically ill patient.

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Sydney, Nepean Campus, PO Box 63, Penrith, NSw, 2751, Australia

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McLean, A.S., Huang, S.J. (2006). Intensive Care Echocardiography. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33396-7_13

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