Transthoracic Echocardiography Inside a Hyperbaric Chamber

Critical Care Transthoracic Echocardiography

A 70-year-old man with end-stage heart failure and a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device received repeated electrical discharges from his biventricular implantable cardiac defibrillator. Although the electrocardiogram demonstrated ventricular fibrillation, the patient was awake and in no distress. A focused transthoracic echocardiogram was performed to assess ventricular function rev...

Basic transthoracic echocardiography.

Quantified Risk Assessment of Fire Incidence inside Hyperbaric Chamber: A Case Study

An enclosed human occupancy chamber is commonly known as hyperbaric chamber system (HCS). The medical treatment to divers suffering from decompression sickness is administered inside a hyperbaric chamber. The hazards inherent inside the chamber include sudden loss of pressure, fire and rapid loss of life-supporting gases. Fire can be catastrophic inside the oxygenenriched confined space of a hy...

Transthoracic Echocardiography in Mice

In recent years, murine models have become the primary avenue for studying the molecular mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction resulting from changes in gene expression. Transgenic and gene targeting methods can be used to generate mice with altered cardiac size and function, and as a result, in vivo techniques are needed to evaluate their cardiac phenotype. Transthoracic echocardiography, pulse wa...

Aortic plaque defined by contrast transthoracic echocardiography

The authors explore the use of third generation echo contrast to define plaque in the ascending aorta and exclude more invasive procedures.