Title:

Intensive Care Echo & Basic Lung Ultrasound

Description:

The Intensive Care Echo and Basic Lung Ultrasound project covers the theoretical knowledge required prior to undertaking hands-on training in basic echo and lung ultrasound in intensive care. This includes the physics of ultrasound, anatomy and basic views, left and right ventricular function, life-threatening pathologies, basic lung ultrasound and some of the limitations and pitfalls that may be encountered. The intended audience is intensive care and acute medicine doctors, anaesthetists and clinicians interested in assessment of the critically ill patient.

Hierarchy:

Intensive Care Echo and Basic Lung Ultrasound (ICE-BLU) > Intensive Care Echo & Basic Lung Ultrasound

Keywords:

Transthoracic, critical care, challenges, cardiac arrest, periarrest, ALS, algorithm, reporting, acquisition, physics, ultrasound, properties, transducer, optimisation, gain, depth, focus, M-mode, artefact, resolution, anatomy, basic views, parasternal, long axis, short axis, apical 4 chamber, subcostal, lung ultrasound, coronary blood supply, left ventricle, normal, dilation, function, impaired, hypertrophy, contractility, measurement, quantitative, eyeballing, segments, ischaemia, right ventricle, size, function, overload, volume, pressure, acute, chronic, paradoxical septal motion, D-shaped, septum, pathology, hypovolaemia, sepsis, pericardial, tamponade, collection, effusion, pulmonary, embolus, aorta, dilation, dissection, lung, ribs, anterior, base, pleural, sliding, pneumothorax, consolidation, oedema, limitations, pitfalls, anatomical variants, artefact, expert, advanced, comprehensive, referral

Created:

28 Nov 2013

Updated:

12 Mar 2025