From Echocardiography in ICU

 

Contents 1 The five most important things you need to know  2 Basic Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) 3 Hemodynamics 4 Images library 5 Clinical cases 6 Cases for tests

The five most important things you need to know 

Basic Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)

Indications for echocardiography, TTE versus TEE

Preparation of the patient

Main echocardiographic imaging planes

Chambers evaluation

Valves evaluation

Pericardium

Hemodynamics

Volume status

Tamponade

Right ventricle systolic pressure

Cardiac output

Images library

Clinical cases

Cases for tests 

Each of these five blocks represents a panel of frequent echocardiographic diseases. To assess your capabilities in the interpretation of transthoracic echocardiography images, you can take the corresponding test on coursework:

https://coursework.stanford.edu/portal/site/Echocardiography%20in%20ICU.

To pass the evaluation, you will need to achieve a score>80%.

Block 1

Block 2

Block 3

Block 4

Block 5

Key words: echocardiography, focused, critically ill, icu, tte, goal-directed, point-of-care, critical care, ultrasound