Skin is the largest organ of the human body, and it offers a diagnostic interface rich with vital
biological signals from the inner organs, blood vessels, muscles, and dermis/epidermis. Soft …

Echocardiography is increasingly recommended for the diagnosis and assessment of
patients with severe cardiac disease, including acute heart failure. Although previously …

Echocardiography is increasingly used in the management of the critically ill patient as a
non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring tool. Whilst in few countries specialized national …

Advances in ultrasound technology continue to enhance its diagnostic applications in daily
medical practice. Bedside echocardiographic examination has become useful to properly …

Methods Prospectively collected data from two observational cohorts in the USA and in the
Netherlands and from the prospective GLUCONTROL trial were analyzed. Hospital mortality …

Accurate assessment and rapid decision-making are essential to save lives and improve
performance in critical care medicine. Real-time point-of-care ultrasound has become an …

The use of point of care echocardiography by non-cardiologist in acute care settings such as
the emergency department (ED) or the intensive care unit (ICU) is very common. Unlike …

As emphasised by Price et al. in their review published in this issue of Intensive Care
Medicine [1], a large number of cardiac conditions can be diagnosed and analysed by …

OBJECTIVE: In this review, we define learning goals and recommend competencies
concerning focused basic critical care ultrasound (CCUS) for critical care specialists in …

Background Over recent decades, echocardiography has become a pivotal diagnostic tool
for the assessment of patients with hemodynamic compromise in general intensive care …