Echocardiography practice, training and accreditation in the intensive care: document for the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS)

Susanna Price¹ , Gabriele Via² , Erik Sloth³ , Fabio Guarracino⁴ , Raoul Breitkreutz⁵ , Emanuele Catena⁶ , Daniel Talmor⁷ and World Interactive Network Focused On Critical UltraSound ECHO-ICU Group⁸

¹  Adult Intensive Care Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, SW3 6NP London, UK

²  1st Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, P.zzale Golgi 2, 27100 Pavia, Italy

³  Department of Anaesthesiology, Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark

⁴  Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and ICU, Azienda Ospedaliera Pisana, via Paradisa 2, 56124 Pisa, Italy

⁵  Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, and Pain therapy, Hospital of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

⁶  Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Azienda Ospedaliera Niguarda Ca'Granda, P.za Osp. Maggiore 3, 20100, Milan, Italy

⁷  Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215, USA

⁸  The WINFOCUS ECHO-ICU Group is a section of the World Interactive Network Focused On Critical UltraSound (WINFOCUS) (http://www.winfocus.org and http://www.winfocus.org/?id=MTUtNDctei1JVEEg). Registered office in via Borgonuovo, Street number 4, Milan, Italy