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Handheld Echocardiography for Critical Care

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A handbook will be provided at the course.

Click here for course slides

Click here for a table of normal values

Useful review articles

Valve disease
Anatomy of the Mitral Valve
Quantitation of Mitral Regurgitation: rationale, approach, and interpretation in clinical practice
Doppler echocardiographic assessment of valvular regurgitation
Anatomic-echocardiographic correlates: an introduction to normal and congenitally malformed hearts
Cardiomyopathy
Utility of echocardiography in the evaluation of individuals with cardiomyopathy
Echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac dyssynchrony for predicting a favourable response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy
Chagas disease NEW
Eosinophilic cardiomyopathy NEW
LV non-compaction NEW
Assessment of function
Clinical assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function
Techniques for comprehensive two dimensional echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular systolic function
Diastolic function - assessment review NEW
Assessment of Diastolic Function: what general cardiologists need to know
Left ventricular assessment using real time three dimensional echocardiography
Diastolic dysfunction in diabetes
Two dimensional strain assessment
Assessing LV function in athletes
 Strain and strain rate imaging (JASE review)
Endocarditis
Infective Endocarditis
Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
Other
Role of echocardiography in acute coronary syndromes
Coanda effect NEW
Kawaski disease NEW
Dysynchrony assessment
Herceptin and the heart
Degenerative aortic valve disease
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
Apical HCM and the use of strain echo
Colour tissue Doppler versus spectral Doppler
The year in echo 2007
Age and sex differences in tissue Doppler
 Carotid IMT in evaluation of CV risk
Normal ranges for CIMT in adults
Clinical applications of CIMT
Clinical uses of CIMT
Tissue Doppler velocities in normal heart
Strain in normal and infarcted heart
TDI in systolic and diastolic assessment
Right ventricular function assessment with RV IVRT
Echo origins of the 3rd heart sound

Useful links

British Society of Echocardiography
BSE Transthoracic Accreditation Park
American Society of Echocardiography

Specialist Echocardiography Journals

Echocardiography
European Journal of Echocardiography
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Cardiovascular Ultrasound

On-Line Teaching Resources

Echo in Context
EchoWeb
Library of Echocardiographic Images from Echocardiography Laboratory of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey