Last week we reviewed some common errors found when measuring diastolic function. This week we will review 5 steps to identify diastolic dysfunction in echo. Since the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission mandates both the assessment and reporting of diastolic function for echo accreditation, we thought it would be a good idea to review these measurements again. We understand that diastology can be complex, but this is a great starting point.
Now that diastology is a mandated part of the scanning protocol for all of our accreditation clients, we are starting to see more diastology measurement errors. We thought that sharing these errors may help others to avoid them. This week, we will review correct tissue Doppler measurement techniques while reviewing two common errors. These errors include:
We recently reviewed a case during a local hospital quality improvement meeting that required us to assess whether or not there was prosthetic aortic valve stenosis. It was interesting to touch up on the key parameters that should be assessed. This week we will review the key points for imaging and interpreting prosthetic aortic valve stenosis with echocardiography.
Last month we presented Echo in Pulmonary Embolism. One of the echo findings associated with acute pulmonary embolism is the echo 60/60 sign. What is the echo 60/60 sign? This week we will learn the features of the 60/60 sign in echocardiography and its implications with pulmonary embolism.
Last week we posted an article on acute pulmonary embolism in echocardiography. In that post we discussed how echo is good for ruling-in pulmonary embolism but not for ruling-out a pulmonary embolism.
In the early days of our blog (2015) we published an article on the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in echo. Since then our audience has grown and additional research results have been published. This week we will review this past article and provide updates based on the latest studies.
As a sonographer, you may have heard about the Watchman procedure. You may have heard of it at a conference, through a journal, or perhaps at your own institution. Since echo, specifically transesophageal echo (TEE) is an integral part of the Watchman intraprocedural oversight, sonographers are often involved with some aspect of the procedure.
This week we partnered with Wendy Sowa-Maldarelli to co-write an article on the Watchman Device. Wendy is an experienced sonographers with a wealth of knowledge. Enjoy learning more about Wendy in this week’s Educator Spotlight interview!
In the past, we have written articles on aortic stenosis and best practices for performing the continuity equation. It’s great to read blogs but it is important to apply this knowledge to our everyday practice. That is why this week we asked experienced sonograher, Jessica Hooley, ACS, RCS, to share some real life examples of aortic stenosis and mismatch values and provide us with some tips and recommendations.
This week we connected with Jessica Hooley, ACS, RCS. Jessica is an advanced cardiac sonographer and she was kind enough to provide us with some real life examples of aortic stenosis mismatch values in this weeks blog.
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