Point of Care Sonography, an Essential Tool for Anesthesiology and Acute Care
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Anesthesiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anesthesia; intensive care medicine; pain therapy; emergency medicine; ultrasound in anesthesia and intensive care medicine; regional anesthesia; obstetric anesthesia
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the advent of novel scanning protocols and the availability of ultra-portable point-of-care machines, bedside ultrasound is rapidly developing into a mainstay for diagnostics and the guidance of interventions in anesthesiology and acute care. In the near future, most anesthesiologists and physicians managing acute care will rely on rapid guidance by ultrasound to improve clinical decision making on a daily basis.
In anesthesiology, ultrasound is growing a portfolio of applications comprising peripheral and central vascular access, and the evaluation of hemodynamics and ventilation as well as gastric volume to prevent aspiration. Virtually all peripheral regional blocks are guided by ultrasound, and even neuraxial blocks are improved by prior planning with ultrasound.
In acute care situations, rapid ultrasound markedly improves the diagnosis of life-threatening conditions in critical patients. The initiation of the best therapeutic pathway is accelerated by the bedside ultrasound imaging of the heart, the blood vessels, the lung, and the abdominal organs.
This Special Issue aims to highlight novel methods and strategies for advancing the integration of ultrasound tools in daily clinical decision making and the guidance of therapeutic procedures. We welcome both cutting-edge research papers and comprehensive reviews regarding the applications of ultrasound in anesthesiology and acute care.
Prof. Dr. Stefan U. Weber
Dr. Se-Chan Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ultrasound
- anesthesia
- acute care
- critical care
- regional anesthesia
- vascular access
- lung ultrasound
- echocardiography
- gastric ultrasound
- point of care
