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Basic Echocardiography for Beginners
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Basic Echocardiography for Beginners

Learn how to get the standard transthoracic (TTE) and transeshophageal (TEE/TOE) views.
Created byMohamed El Wazir
Last updated 10/2018
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What you'll learn

  • Learn the basic echocardiographic views of the heart and be able to get them, even if you've never held a probe before.

Course content

2 sections • 31 lectures • 40m total length

  • Introduction0:45

    This lecture is a brief introduction to the course and what you'll be learning. In this course I'll be using the VirtualEcho simulator, which you can download at the link supplied in the resources section. You can also use this discount code: VEUDEMY to get 20% off the full version.

  • Anatomy2:04

    In this lecture you'll learn the basic anatomy of the heart, it's chambers, and the great vessels and how they related to each others and to the torso.

  • Probe movements1:16

    In this lecture you'll learn the three types of TTE probe movement: sliding (translation), tilt (angulation), and rotation, and how they affect the view.

  • Left parasternal long-axis view3:24

    In this lecture you will learn how to get the left parasternal long-axis view, the first view in a standard echocardiographic study, and you will learn what structures you see in this view.

  • Left parasternal short-axis view3:03

    In this lecture you will learn how to get the various parasternal short-axis views, and what structures you see in each one.

  • Apical four-chamber view1:31

    In this lecture you will learn how to get the apical four-chamber view and which structures it shows.

  • Apical five-chamber view0:48

    In this lecture you will learn how to get the apical five-chamber view and the difference between it and the four-chamber view.

  • Apical two-chamber view0:48

    In this lecture you will learn how to get the apical two-chamber view and why it's important for a complete echocardiographic study.

  • Apical three-chamber view1:44

    In this lecture you will learn how to get the apical three-chamber view and which structures it shows.

  • Subcostal view2:28

    In this lecture you will learn how to get the subcostal view and why it's important.

  • Suprasternal view2:20

    In this lecture you will learn how to get the suprasternal view and why it's sometimes an indispensable view.

  • Bonus lecture: what to do next2:44

    Congratulations! You finished the course! You've only just begun learning however, and in this lecture we make sure you know what you need to do next by offering you a curated list of useful echocardiography resources, courses, apps, and textbooks.

Requirements

  • Nothing at all. This is a course for the absolute beginner.

Description

This is a course for the absolute beginner who wants to learn what the basic echocardiography views are, how to get them, and which structures can be seen in each view. This is for young cardiolgists or sonographers who are starting out, or for established anaesthesiologists, intensivists or ER physicians who want to learn a life-saving new skill. It's not for established echocardiographers.

Who this course is for:

  • Students, doctors or sonographers who are starting out in echocardiography and want to learn the basic views.

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