"I need to reduce recovery time,
complications, and resources....
"I need to avoid fluid overload
during resuscitation...
"I need to see cardiac
filling and function...
"I need to know if it's tamponade
or desaturation...
"I need to get my critical
patients off vent faster...
so I use hemodynamic ultrasound."

Weaning Dobutamine in a Patient With Severe Cardiogenic Shock Using Hemodynamic Transesophageal Echocardiography

C. Ainsworth, MD, G. Brown, MD, M. Perkins, MD, J. Bunin, MD
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD USA
*Presented at CHEST, Chicago, IL

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