Critical Care in Pregnant Patients

Ultrasound
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-443-23713-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Critical Care in Pregnant Patients: Ultrasound, a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series, is a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises. The book's chapters reflect the growing scope of critical care obstetrics and the increasing importance and recognition of the hospital structure's field. All intensivists, regardless of primary discipline, must possess a core set of critical care skills to manage critically ill patients. The book's authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on how ultrasound can successfully manage potential scenarios of common and rare health complications.

Users will find the basics of ultrasound and the latest technological advances of ultrasound that foster research and improve health outcomes in pregnant patients.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hidalgo, Jorge

Montufar-Rueda, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Basic ultrasound physics
2. Ultrasound Artefacts
3. Basic cardiac ultrasound
4. Cardiac ultrasound in pregnancy
5. Basic lung ultrasound
6. Lung ultrasound in pregnancy
7. Basic ultrasound of the systemic veins
8. Transcranial Doppler in pregnancy
9. Gynaecological ultrasound in critical care
10. Ultrasound for Cardiac arrest in pregnancy
11. Abdominal US in pregnancy
12. Ophthalmological US in pregnancy

Über Autor(innen)

Montufar-Rueda, Carlos
Dr. Carlos Montufar-Rueda is the Head of the Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit of the "Dr. Arnulfo Arias M." Hospital Complex in Panama City, Panama. He is the creator and National Director of the Fellowship Program in Critical Care Obstetrics in Panama. He has written chapters in different texts on the subject of obstetric complications and obstetric intensive care. In addition, he has participated in clinical research studies, publishing papers in different International Medical Journals. Dr. Montufar-Rueda had an important participation in the creation and structuring of the Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics course, endorsed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is a member of SCCM, and is designated as the International Ambassador of Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM). Dr. Montufar-Rueda has participated in countless international conferences as an exhibitor from 1997 to date.

Hidalgo, Jorge
Dr. Jorge Hidalgo is a Professor of Critical Care and the Head of the Division of Critical Care at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize, Central America. He is the President Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. He has won several awards with the highest recognition and the Director of the very prestigious ACP Review Course hosted by the Paraguay Society of Internal Medicine. Due to his outstanding contribution to the Society of Critical Care Medicine he received the Presidential Citation Award. And Global Safar Award, becoming the First Latin American Intensivist to get this Nomination. He is involved in numerous congresses and a well-recognized international speaker.