title: Echocardiography in a Patient on Mechanical Ventilation.
abstract: Cardiopulmonary interactions or effects of spontaneous and mechanical ventilation (MV) were first documented in the year 1733. Stephen Hales showed that the blood pressure of healthy individual fell during spontaneous inspiration and he later went on to discover the ventilator. A year later Kussmaul described pulsus paradoxus (inspiratory absence of radial pulse) in patients with tubercular pericarditis. Echocardiography can help to diagnose a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases and can guide therapeutic decisions in patients on mechanical ventilation.
authors.forename: Ankush
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sachdeva
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D012121:Respiration, Artificial