Echocardiography in the CCU

Eyal Herzog, MD, FACC is Director of the Cardiac Care Unit and Director of the echocardiography laboratories at Mount Sinai-St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, NY. Dr Herzog received his medical degree from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and echocardiography. Dr. Herzog is the author of five textbooks, “Herzog’s CCU Book”, “The Cardiac Care Unit Survival Guide,” “Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome,” “Acute Coronary Syndrome-Multidisciplinary and Pathway Based Approached” and “Pericardial Diseases”. He has also authored numerous peer reviewed journal articles.  Dr Herzog is the recipient of numerous awards including the “teacher of the year award of the Department of Medicine at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital for 8 years and the “Distinguished Physician of the Year” at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in 2010-2011. Edgar Argulian, MD, MPH is Co-Director of the echocardiography laboratories at Mount Sinai-St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, NY. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, nuclear cardiology and echocardiography. He has authored numerous peer reviewed journal articles in the field of echocardiography.

“This is a multiauthored overview regarding the use of echocardiography in critical care and, specifically, critical care cardiology. … Chapters are clearly written and feature clear tables and excellent multicolor line drawings. The quality of static images from 3-D echocardiography is excellent. … This book can be recommended as a well-written introduction to the various roles of echocardiography in critical care.” (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2018)

• Hemodynamic assessment in the CCU by Echo.- Use of Echo in Patients with Intra-Cardiac Device.- Non Cardiac Ultrasound in the CCU.- Hand held Ultrasound devices in the CCU.- Contrast Echo in the CCU.- Echo in Acute Chest Pain.- Echo in Acute Dyspnea.- Echo in Syncope.- Echo in Hypotension and Shock.- Echo in Cardiac Arrest.- Echo in a Patient with Arrhythmia.- Echo in Acute Neurologic Syndrome.- Echo in a Patient with a new murmur.