Patients in the neonatal intensive care often demonstrate clinical situations where hemodynamic compromise is common. Birth itself is the complex transition from placental blood flow to pulmonary blood flow as predominant provider of preload to the left heart, with redirection of blood flow over ...

Diastolic function in echocardiography aims to cover; 1. Normal diastolic function including normal haemodynamics, LV relaxation and echocardiography physiology; 2. Diastolic dysfunction including haemodynamic changes, echo pathophysiology and grading of diastolic dysfunction.

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The role of rapid assessment cardiac echocardiography at night when spooky things begin to happen!

Clinical assessment of causes and response during cardiac arrest is extremely difficult and inaccurate. Echocardiography offers unique insights into these questions, with potentially positive outcomes, but may be deleterious if it interrupts resuscitative efforts or suggests unhelpful interventio...

The right ventricle can often be neglected during the clinical and echocardiographic assessment of critically unwell patients. Its complex shape and close proximity to other vital structures, makes it vulnerable to injury in many disease states such as pulmonary embolism, cardiomyopathies, valvul...

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When do I attempt drainage of that pericardial effusion? There is limited information with regards to strategic workflow for urgent management of cardiac tamponade. Many do not include echocardiography findings and this presentation aims to provide a process to consider relevant findings to help ...