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Assessment and management of septic shock and hypovolemia

Key points Sepsis can progress rapidly from mild clinical signs to full-blown septic shock with high morbidity and mortality. The clinical recognition of the onset of sepsis and the onset of neonatal septic shock can be challenging. In conjunction with…

Advanced cardiac imaging in the newborn: Tissue doppler imaging and speckle tracking echocardiography

Key points Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) is a modality that employs the Doppler effect to assess muscle wall characteristics throughout the cardiac cycles including velocity, displacement, deformation, and event timings. Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2DSTE) is a non-Doppler technique that…