In the era when the border between non invasive cardiology and radiology became blurred mainly due to an increased demand for "cardiac imagers" (e.g. "experts" in echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, CT angiograhy and cardiac MRI) this book stands alone as a proof of how echocardiography can still "save" lives by being able to confirm or not the clinical diagnosis in an accurate, rapid, totaly noninvasive and cost-efficient manner.

The book is crisp, very well organized, easy to navigate and written in such a manner that the young and old physician, cardiologist or not, can find a good reason to keep it in the white coat pocket, at hand to be consulted. The images are highly representative and sometimes rarely seen even in the textbooks of echocardiography.

I strongly recommend this manual for anybody involved in critical care medicine.



Eddy B

Professor of Medicine

USA