Echocardiography Essentials
Ultrasound
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.
Description
After completing this course, you’ll be able to perform a basic transthoracic echo (TTE) exam without the help of a more senior colleague. Using practical demos we’ll teach you echo anatomy and show you how to operate the machine, obtain the standard TTE views, differentiate normal from abnormal, and confidently assess and report anything you find!
Course Details
55 Lessons
11 Quizzes
6 CME
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Course Highlights
Assessing left ventricular systolic function
Today, we explore the Echocardiography Essentials course with a video on how to recognize normal, hyperkinetic and hypokinetic function of the left ventricle with the help of transthoracic echo. Assessing left ventricular global systolic function, left ventricular dysfunction, cardiomyopathy and cardiac decompensation.
Evaluating right ventricular size and function
Today, we explore the Echocardiography Essentials course with a video defining the recognition of right ventricular (RV) function; RV dilatation; RV hypertrophy, hyper- and hypokinesis using transthoracic echo. We also describe how imaging in suspected pulmonary embolism.
Detecting and evaluating aortic regurgitation
Today, we explore the Echocardiography Essentials course with a video demonstrating rapid bedside assessment of aortic regurgitation and how to recognize haemodynamically significant aortic regurgitation using transthoracic echo.
Detecting and evaluating mitral regurgitation
Today, we explore the Echocardiography Essentials course with a video demonstrating rapid bedside assessment of mitral regurgitation and how to recognise cardiac decompensation following rupture of a cord in mitral valve prolapse using TTE.
Detecting and evaluating pericardial effusion
Today, we explore the Echocardiography Essentials course with a video demonstrating rapid bedside assessment and diagnosis of pericardial effusion.