title: [The role of echocardiography in intensive care].
abstract: Echocardiography hasn't played yet a major role in the majority of the noncardiac intensive care units, specially the ones with general multi-care profile. In the past few years an increasing number of patients admitted have an important cardiac component, reason why we emphasize the role of this non invasive diagnostic tool. It's easily performed, may be repeated as many times as necessary, thus providing a quick diagnosis of the disease, its repercussions and medical or surgical interventions.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Medicina Interna--unidade de cuidados intensivos (UCI), Hospital de Curry Cabral, Lisboa.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guimarães
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marcelino
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marum
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mota
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011174:Portugal; D013909:Thorax
vernacular_title: O papel da ecocardiografia em cuidados intensivos.