Last month we conducted an online survey to better understand the attitudes and practices around echo accreditation. Each participant earned a $25 CME coupon code and the chance to win $200. We are pleased to announce the echo accreditation survey winner…
CardioServ’s next stop on the World Tour was Cleveland, Ohio! We had the honor of speaking at the Spring Echo Conference “Back to Basics” for the NOCIA. The Society conference was held on the campus of a local college (Cuyahoga Community College). Attendees from the Cleveland and Akron area attended, which included sonographers, students and physicians.
No worries if you missed the recent ACC Scientific Sessions, held in Orlando Florida this past weekend. We have gathered some of the best topics, and placed them all here for you to easily read the latest and greatest cardiology updates. In addition, check out our blog, where Andrea, our Clinical Cardiac Director, explains here personal experience and reaction to attending the ACC 2018 event.
We evaluate the aortic valve for pathology on every patient we scan. It’s easy to forget the basic concept of anatomy and the functions each part of the valve plays in opening & closing of the leaflets. This blog is going to be a refresher and cover the basic anatomy of the aortic valve!
Last month in July, CardioServ partnered with All About Ultrasound to hold our Mastering Venous Reflux Ultrasound Conference. Our goal at CardioServ is to inspire excellence in imaging. This includes making sure we teach to all different learning styles. We have become more aware, over the past years, of just how differently our clients learn and process information.
In Hepatic Veins 101, we discussed the structure, function and waveforms of the hepatic veins, in regards to the cardiac cycle. This blog will cover how the hepatic veins play a role with the right heart. We tend to forget about the importance and useful information the hepatic veins provide us. Lets review, how the hepatic veins play a role in:
As we come to an end with our right heart blog series, we want to conclude with a comprehensive look at the role of hepatic vein evaluation to assess the right heart. We will break this down into 2 blogs this week. This first blog will cover the fundamentals of hepatic veins and the second part will review how the hepatic veins play a role in Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) and right heart failure.
Over that past two months, we have discussed various methods for evaluating the right heart. Guided from the updated ASE chamber quantification guidelines, we have been able to elaborate on quantifying methods for:
Before jumping into assessing the RV with the Fractional Area Change method, lets recap the past couple weeks. Last week, we talked about two methods for quantifying the function of the RV (TAPSE & S’ Wave). We selected these methods to explain first due to ease, reproducibility and established prognostic value. As some of our readers pointed out and as we discussed the TAPSE and S’ Wave methods do have limitations though. The 3 main limitations are:
We have been teaching on correct techniques for right heart assessment (including TAPSE and RVSP) for a while now and we still seem to face a little resistance sometimes in regards to the clinical significance of right heart assessment. In order for us to learn and retain information we often have to understand the relevance and make a connection between what we are learning and how it relates to things we know.
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