This book provides practice questions in a case-based format to prepare for the National Board of Echocardiographys examination to assess Special Competence in Critical Care Echocardiography.
Focused on the exam's core topics, this textbook caters to physicians who are preparing for the Critical Care Echocardiography board examination. Defining features of each chapter include case based scenarios with videos and supporting images, meaningful and relevant multiple-choice questions, key take-aways and a summary. This book is the product of a multidisciplinary collaboration between ICU physicians (Pulmonary, Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology), Cardiologists, and Anesthesiologists.
This book meets the needs of physicians from various disciplines preparing for the critical care echocardiography board examination.
Knobology and physics
Artifacts
Doppler and M mode
Echocardiographic views and image acquisition
LV systolic function
LV diastolic function
RV function
Native and prosthetic Valvular pathology- mitral, aortic, tricuspid and pulmonic
Adult congenital heart diseases
Echocardiography based hemodynamic calculations
Devices, foreign bodies and intra-cardiac masses
Pericardial diseases
TEE
Lung and pleural ultrasound
Abdominal ultrasound
Vascular ultrasound
Echocardiography in cardiac arrest
Roshni Sreedharan, MD
Program Director, Critical Care Fellowship
Department of General Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
Sandeep Khanna, MD
Associate Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency
Department of General Anesthesiology & Department of Outcomes Research
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
Ajit Moghekar, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
Siddharth Dugar, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
Patrick Collier, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
