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Overview In critical care, the goals of hemodynamic monitoring include mainly detection of cardiovascular insufficiency and diagnosis of the underlying pathophysiology. At the bedside, clinicians are faced with the challenge of translating concepts such as preload, contractility, and afterload into…

Overview The first reported use of ultrasound to assess cardiac function was almost 60 years ago. Technologic advances have now placed echocardiography as the intensivist’s only option for bedside visualization of cardiac anatomy and function in real time. Although echocardiography…