Introduction Emergency physicians and intensivists are often called on to manage critically ill patients. Bedside echocardiography offers useful information regarding many acute cardiovascular conditions such as tamponade, pulmonary embolism and
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Real Lebeau, Georgetta Sas, Malak El Rayes, Alexandrina Serban, Sherif Moustafa, Btissama Essadiqi, Maria DiLorenzo, Vicky Souliere, Yanick Beaulieu, Claude Sauve, Robert Amyot, and Karim Serri
Victor Galusko, Owen Bodger, and Adrian Ionescu
Introduction The introduction of echocardiography was transformative. By allowing direct visualisation and measurement, it improved the understanding, and simplified appreciation of cardiac structure and function in health and disease. It
Robert M Cooper, Adeel Shahzad, James Newton, Niels Vejlstrup, Anna Axelsson, Vishal Sharma, OIiver Ormerod, and Rodney H Stables
haemodynamics and can be dangerous. The procedure has been well described (13) . International guidelines recommend the use of myocardial-contrast echocardiography (MCE) during ASA (14) . MCE is used to confirm the myocardial distribution of individual septal
Z H Teoh, J Roy, J Reiken, M Papitsas, J Byrne, and M J Monaghan
, presence of previous aortic or mitral valve interventions and previous TV replacement or repair. All ECHO assessments and reports were done independently by British Society of Echocardiography–accredited echocardiographers who were not aware of the study
Kevin Emery Boczar, Olexiy Aseyev, Jeffrey Sulpher, Christopher Johnson, Ian G Burwash, Michele Turek, Susan Dent, and Girish Dwivedi
patients undergoing anthracycline-based chemotherapy would show evidence of right ventricular dysfunction identifiable using transthoracic echocardiography and currently available echocardiographic techniques. Materials and methods Using the
James Yates, Colin Forbes Royse, Carolyn Royse, Alistair George Royse, and David Jeffrey Canty
-calling clinically important cardiac pathology approximately 50% of the time when compared with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in both the acute ( 4 , 5 ) and outpatient ( 6 , 7 ) settings. TTE is a useful and frequently performed test for diagnosis or
Nicola Smith, Richard Steeds, Navroz Masani, Julie Sandoval, Gill Wharton, Jane Allen, John Chambers, Richard Jones, Guy Lloyd, Bushra Rana, Kevin O'Gallagher, Richard Wheeler, and Vishal Sharma
Introduction The British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) Education Committee has previously published a minimum dataset for a standard adult transthoracic echocardiogram (1) . This Guideline specifically states that the minimum dataset is usually
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Opportunities Clinical values of quantitative echocardiography Traditionally, measurement of EF is the bread and butter of echo and is being one of the most widely accepted methods ( 1 ). However, there is a large variation of EF values by
Stephan Stoebe, Michael Metze, Daniel Jurisch, Bhupendar Tayal, Kilian Solty, Ulrich Laufs, Dietrich Pfeiffer, and Andreas Hagendorff
assessment of LV volumes, SV tot , SV eff to calculate RVol and RF by the volumetric approach is currently proposed as an alternative approach for AR quantification and can be performed by 2D, 3D echocardiography and cardiac magnet resonance imaging (cMRI
Vishal Sharma, Susan Alderton, Helen McNamara, Richard Steeds, Will Bradlow, Adrian Chenzbraun, David Oxborough, Thomas Mathew, Richard Jones, Richard Wheeler, Julie Sandoval, Guy Lloyd, Kevin O'Gallagher, Daniel Knight, Liam Ring, Katherine Collins, Niall O'Keeffe, Nick Fletcher, Allan Harkness, and Bushra Rana
of this checklist is now recommended for all patients undergoing surgery in the UK by the National Patient Safety Agency. The rationale for a safety checklist in transoesophageal echocardiography A large number of invasive and interventional