1. Haemodynamic evaluation: a key tool for heart failure management. Ultrasounds forever!
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Donal, Erwan, Galli, Elena, Paven, Elise, and Sade, Leyla Elif
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HEART failure , *ULTRASONIC imaging , *HEMODYNAMICS , *DOPPLER echocardiography , *CARDIOLOGISTS , *CENTRAL venous pressure , *PROGNOSIS - Abstract
The manuscript is very attractive and should push forward the heart failure specialists to use more ultrasounds for solving their issues about the management of heart failure patients. Cardiologists, heart failure specialists are not familiar enough with the great value of echocardiography for optimizing, daily, the treatment of heart failure patients. In that regard, congestion imaging likely fits in the point of care and focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) approaches.18,19 Relatively easy to learn, this approach is also attractive and beneficial for non-cardiologists such as intensivists, anaesthesiologists, emergency department physicians and even heart failure nurses. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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