Section I: Basic Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography Introduction to Basic Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography: Examination, Certification, Indications and Contraindications -- Transesophageal Echocardiography: Probe Manipulation, Essential Views -- Point-Of-Care Transthoracic Echocardiography: Probe Manipulation, Positioning, Essential Views -- Basic Ultrasound Physics, Doppler Ultrasound, and Hemodynamic Assessment -- Knobology and Image Optimization -- Section II: Echocardiographic Assessment Left Ventricular Systolic Function -- Regional Ventricular Function -- Mitral Valve -- Aortic Valve -- Right Heart -- Atria -- Diastology -- Thoracic Aorta -- Pericardium -- Perioperative Rescue Echocardiography -- Imaging Artifacts, Normal Anatomic Variants, and Common Misdiagnoses -- Intracardiac Masses, Devices, and Foreign Bodies -- Adult Congenital Heart Disease -- Section III: Critical Care Ultrasonography Abdominal and Vascular Ultrasound -- Volume Assessment and Fluid Responsiveness -- Lung Ultrasonography -- Shock and Cardiac Arrest -- Ultrasound for Vascular Access -- .

Building on the success of the previous edition, this review book includes all of the original content plus several new chapters dedicated to the education and implementation of transthoracic echocardiography and point-of-care ultrasonography. Chapters feature board review-style questions and answers to assist readers with board exam preparation. This book also includes the most up-to-date echocardiography content and practice guidelines. This book fills an educational gap in the perioperative and critical care echocardiography landscape. It addresses essential perioperative and critical care echocardiography topics in an accessible manner for those who provide acute care and resuscitation in any environment, including the operating room, intensive care unit, and the emergency department. Essential Echocardiography, 2nd edition, is expertly written for the practitioner with limited knowledge of echocardiography preparing for either the Examination of Special Competence in Basic Perioperative TEE (Basic PTEeXAM) or the Examination of Special Competence in Critical Care Echocardiography (CCEeXAM).