order to facilitate high-quality echocardiography in the assessment of patients. This document is intended as an update to the previously published work. This guide should be seen as supplementary to the BSE minimum dataset ( 3 ). The intended benefit
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Echocardiographic assessment of aortic stenosis: a practical guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography
Liam Ring, Benoy N Shah, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Allan Harkness, Mark Belham, David Oxborough, Keith Pearce, Bushra S Rana, Daniel X Augustine, Shaun Robinson, and Christophe Tribouilloy
A patient-centred model to quality assure outputs from an echocardiography department: consensus guidance from the British Society of Echocardiography
Thomas E Ingram, Steph Baker, Jane Allen, Sarah Ritzmann, Nina Bual, Laura Duffy, Chris Ellis, Karina Bunting, Noel Black, Marcus Peck, Sandeep S Hothi, Vishal Sharma, Keith Pearce, Richard P Steeds, Navroz Masani, and the British Society of Echocardiography Clinical Standards and Departmental Accreditation Committees
inter-study variability of echocardiography is often significant ( 4 ). This variation and the overall accuracy of studies and their accompanying reports can potentially be improved by a robust quality assurance (QA) process within echocardiographic
Challenges and opportunity in the era of quantitative echocardiography
Cheuk-Man Yu
different echocardiographic methods, and being most accurate by 3D echo while most inaccurate by M-mode. An accurate value of EF is crucial in clinical decision making. For example, a heart failure patient with a measured EF of 30% should receive a heart
A meta-analysis for the echocardiographic assessment of right ventricular structure and function in ARVC: a Study by the Research and Audit Committee of the British Society of Echocardiography
Mohammad Qasem, Victor Utomi, Keith George, John Somauroo, Abbas Zaidi, Lynsey Forsythe, Sanjeev Bhattacharrya, Guy Lloyd, Bushra Rana, Liam Ring, Shaun Robinson, Roxy Senior, Nabeel Sheikh, Mushemi Sitali, Julie Sandoval, Richard Steeds, Martin Stout, James Willis, and David Oxborough
determine if new echocardiographic data may provide additional diagnostic options this study employed a systematic review (with clear quality control and inclusion/exclusion criteria) alongside a meta-analysis to determine which RV structural and functional
A minimum dataset for a standard adult transthoracic echocardiogram: a guideline protocol from the British Society of Echocardiography
Gill Wharton, Richard Steeds, Jane Allen, Hollie Phillips, Richard Jones, Prathap Kanagala, Guy Lloyd, Navroz Masani, Thomas Mathew, David Oxborough, Bushra Rana, Julie Sandoval, Richard Wheeler, Kevin O'Gallagher, and Vishal Sharma
pericardial effusion. Both minimum requirements and recommendations may only be sufficient when the echocardiographic study is entirely normal. If abnormalities are detected, additional views may be required to supplement those outlined in the dataset. The
Stress echocardiography in patients with morbid obesity
Benoy N Shah and Roxy Senior
+ ++ +++ Exposure to ionizing radiation – ++ – Image quality a ++ ++ +++ Extracardiac information + + +++ Requirement for intravenous access b + + + Physiological stress possible + + – Potentially limited
Feasibility of proximal right coronary artery imaging by 2D and 3D echocardiography in comparison to coronary angiography
Stephan Stoebe, Katharina Lange, Dietrich Pfeiffer, and Andreas Hagendorff
D and 3D transthoracic echocardiography. The echocardiographic results were compared to findings observed by CA representing the gold standard for detection of coronary artery stenoses. Methods In the present prospective single-centre study 97
The ‘Inextricabilis Syndrome’: a case with no solution
Tigran Khachatryan, Roy Beigel, Reza Arsanjani, and Robert J Siegel
Background Ventricular assist devices (VADs) have been shown to have survival benefit and improve quality of life in patients with advanced heart failure and acute cardiogenic shock (1) , (2) . They are used as a bridge to decision
Transthoracic echocardiography is adequate for intraprocedural guidance of transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Renuka Jain, Daniel P O’Hair, Tanvir K Bajwa, Denise Ignatowski, Daniel Harland, Amanda M Kirby, Tracy Hammonds, Suhail Q Allaqaband, Jonathan Kay, and Bijoy K Khandheria
were re-reviewed by a sonographer and cardiologist (D I, R J) to evaluate the overall image quality of the echocardiogram (excellent, good, fair, poor) using the same definitions we use in our echocardiography laboratory and document on all TTE reports
Paired surveys for patients and physiologists in echocardiography: a single-centre experience
Michael Roshen, Sophia John, Selda Ahmet, Rajiv Amersey, Sandy Gupta, and George Collins
, patient surveys are important because acting on feedback can improve their experience. The 2016 British Society of Echocardiography’s (BSE) Echocardiography Quality Framework recommends patient satisfaction questionnaires in all TTE departments so that we
