Critical Care in Pregnant Patients - Ultrasound

Critical Care in Pregnant Patients: Ultrasound is a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series. It’s a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises. The chapters reflect the growing scope of critical care obstetrics and the increasing importance and recognition of the hospital structure's field. All intensivists, regardless of primary discipline, must possess a core set of critical care skills that allow them to manage critically ill patients.

The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on how ultrasound can successfully manage potential scenarios of common and rare health complications. It provides the basics of ultrasound and the latest technological advances of ultrasound to foster research and improve health outcomes and in pregnant patients.

List of contents

1. Basic ultrasound physics
2. Ultrasound Artefacts
3. Basic cardiac ultrasound
4. Cardiac ultrasound in pregnancy
5. Basic lung ultrasound
6. Lung ultrasound in pregnancy
7. Basic ultrasound of the systemic veins
8. Transcranial Doppler in pregnancy
9. Gynaecological ultrasound in critical care
10. Ultrasound for Cardiac arrest in pregnancy
11. Abdominal US in pregnancy
12. Ophthalmological US in pregnancy

About the author

Dr. Jorge Hidalgo is a Professor of Critical Care and the Head of the Division of Critical Care at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize, Central America. He is the President Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. He has won several awards with the highest recognition and the Director of the very prestigious ACP Review Course hosted by the Paraguay Society of Internal Medicine. Due to his outstanding contribution to the Society of Critical Care Medicine he received the Presidential Citation Award. And Global Safar Award, becoming the First Latin American Intensivist to get this Nomination. He is involved in numerous congresses and a well-recognized international speaker.Dr. Carlos Montufar is the Head of the Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit of the "Dr. Arnulfo Arias M." Hospital Complex in Panama City, Panama. He is the creator and National Director of the Fellowship Program in Critical Care Obstetrics in Panama. He has written chapters in different texts on the subject of obstetric complications and obstetric intensive care. In addition, he has participated in clinical research studies, publishing papers in different International Medical Journals. Dr. Montufar had an important participation in the creation and structuring of the Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics course, endorsed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is a member of SCCM, and is designated as the International Ambassador of Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM). Dr. Montufar has participated in countless international conferences as an exhibitor from 1997 to date.Dr. Javier Perez-Fernandez serves as Medical Director of the Critical Care Services at Baptist Hospital of Miami. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Professor Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Larkin University, Miami-Dade Florida. He is the Secretary-General of the World Federation of Intensive Care.
Dr. Perez-Fernandez manages a large group of critical care physicians, South Florida Critical Care Services, overseeing the operations of seven ICUs with over 350 beds. He has been a regional and national recognized leader during the COVID-19 pandemic with multiple TV and media appearances and consulting services for several national and international organizations. He has been directly involved in the development of Rapid Response Teams, technology implementation and “open ICU” models. He has lectured worldwide and author of many original publications with the Society of Critical Care Medicine.Dr. Hatem Soliman Aboumarie, MSc, FEACVI, FASE, FHEA is a consulting cardiothoracic intensivist at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals in London, UK. He focuses on critical care echocardiography, lung ultrasound, mechanical circulatory support, and heart and lung transplantation. An honorary senior lecturer in cardiology and medicine at King's College London, he won a European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Excellence in Education award.
Further, he is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), the American Board of Echocardiography, the European Society of Cardiology, and is a board member and councilor for echocardiography at EACVI. He was elected Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK (FHEA), a Fellow of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI), and a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE). Additionally, he is on the editorial boards of “JACC Cardiovascular Imaging,” “Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging” and “Transplantation and Critical Ultrasound Journal.”

Product details

• Assisted by: Hatem Soliman Aboumarie (Editor), Jorge Hidalgo (Editor), Montufar Carlos (Editor), Javier Perez-Fernandez (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.04.2026
• EAN: 9780443237133
• ISBN: 978-0-443-23713-3
• Series: Critical Care in Obstetrics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Biology, life sciences, Life sciences: general issues