title: Critical care ultrasonography.
abstract: Resuscitative ultrasonography provides rapid, repeatable, and multisystem assessment to guide diagnosis and management of critically ill patients in the emergency department (ED). Cardiac ultrasonography offers new anatomic and hemodynamic information, previously unavailable in an ED setting, whereas other applications match or exceed the speed and utility of existing tests such as chest radiograph (thoracic ultrasonography) or central venous pressure determination (inferior vena cava ultrasonography). Evolving areas of resuscitative ultrasonography include neurologic applications and transesophageal echocardiography, which promise to further enhance the role of ultrasonography in managing critical illness in the ED.
authors.affiliation: University of Calgary, 1403 29 St NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 2T9, Canada.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.affiliation: Division of Emergency Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre, Western University, 800 Commissioners Road East, London, Ontario N6A 5W9, Canada; Division of Critical Care Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre, Western University, 800 Commissioners Road East, London, Ontario N6A 5W9, Canada. Electronic address: robert.arntfield@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Robert T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Arntfield
mesh_terms: D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods; D016638:Critical Illness; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006491:Hemothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000639:trends*; D011660:Pulmonary Heart Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology; D012151:Resuscitation; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000639:trends*
keywords: Critical care; Point of care; Resuscitative medicine; Ultrasonography