Acute and Critical Care Echocardiography

Dr Claire Colebourn is a consultant physician working full time in critical care in a busy teaching hospital. She has a strong interest in education and set up the UK's first dedicated intensive care echocardiography training programme now in its seventh successful year. Dr Colebourn's involvement with creating a new accreditation process for the British Society of Echocardiography, to address the specific training needs of critical care clinician-echocardiographers, inspired her to write this book with alumni of the Oxford Critical Care Echo Fellowship and Dr Jim Newton who runs the program with her.Dr Jim Newton is involved in all aspects of echocardiography and has a specialist interest in the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of patients with valvular heart disease.

• 1: Claire Colebourn: The subspecialty practice of critical care echocardiography2: Graham Barker: The left ventricle in critical illness3: David Garry: Interpretation and implication of diastolic dysfunction in critically ill patients4: James Day: The right ventricle in critical illness5: Jodie Smythe, Toby Thomas, and Jim Newton: Valve disease in critical illness6: Justin Mandeville: The pericardium7: Justin Mandeville: Volume assessment and fluid responsiveness8: Claire Colebourn: Field guide to critical care echocardiographyAppendix 1 Answers to questionsAppendix 2 Formulas