Echo basics: Valve Views
Echocardiography and valve views. Overview of valve disease and parasternal, apical and subcostal valve views with the echo probe
Category Echocardiography
Echo basics: Apical and Subcostal Views
Patient position coupled with probe placement and orientation for optimal apical and subcostal views
Echo basics: Parasternal Views
Patient position coupled with probe placement and orientation for optimal parasternal long-axis (PLAX) and parasternal short-axis (PSAX) views
Echo basics: Tips and Tricks
Echocardiography. Tips and tricks on optimising your image, making measurements, recognising artefacts and controlling infection
Echo basics: Machines and Probes
We can do transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) pretty much anywhere. Here are the pros and cons of 3 types of machines, how to identify the different types of probes, and what each type of probe is used for.
Echo: Right ventricular function
Assess right ventricular function and global size, detecting pulmonary embolism with the help of echo with MedMastery Echocardiography Essentials course
Echo: Left ventricular systolic function
Helen Rimington of Medmastery on assessing left ventricular global systolic function
Echo: Pericardial effusion
Helen Rimington explores the Echocardiography Essentials course with a video demonstrating rapid bedside assessment and diagnosis of pericardial effusion.
Echo: Mitral regurgitation
Helen Rimington Medmastery course with assessment of mitral regurgitation and cardiac decompensation following rupture of a cord in mitral valve prolapse
Echo: Aortic regurgitation
Helen Rimington: Assessing aortic regurgitation and recognizing haemodynamically significant aortic regurgitation using transthoracic echo with MedMastery