Echo Made Easy
By- Sam Kaddoura, BSc, BM, BCh, DIC, PhD, FRCP, FESC, FACC, Consultant Cardiologist, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
This best-selling and highly-praised book provides a practical and clinically useful introduction to echo. The author explains the echo techniques available, what an echo can and cannot give, and, importantly, puts echo into a clinical perspective. The sections are ordered with the techniques most often used to diagnose a particular clinical problem explained first. The final chapter deals with special clinical situations.
Audience
Medical students
Junior doctors
Cardiac technicians
Paperback, 248 Pages
Published: January 2009
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 978-0-443-10363-6
Contents
- 1. What is echo?
2. Valves
3. Doppler velocities and pressures
4. Heart failure, myocardium and pericardium
5. Transoesophageal and stress echo and other echo techniques
6. Cardiac masses, infection and congenital abnormalities
7. Special situations and conditions

