Basic Echocardiography for Beginners

Learn how to get the standard transthoracic (TTE) and transeshophageal (TEE/TOE) views.

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4,119 students

Created by Mohamed El Wazir

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

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.

2 sections • 31 lectures • 40m total length

Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)12 lectures • 23min

Introduction
00:45

Anatomy
02:04

Probe movements
01:16

Left parasternal long-axis view
03:24

Left parasternal short-axis view
03:03

Apical four-chamber view
01:31

Apical five-chamber view
00:48

Apical two-chamber view
00:48

Apical three-chamber view
01:44

Subcostal view
02:28

Suprasternal view
02:20

Bonus lecture: what to do next
02:44

Transesophageal (TEE) Echocardiography19 lectures • 17min

Introduction
03:45

Midesophageal four chamber view
01:00

Midesophageal mitral commissure view
01:05

Midesophageal two chamber view
00:31

Midesophageal long axis view
00:45

Midesophageal RV inflow-outflow view
00:53

Midesophageal bicaval view
00:26

Midesophageal ascending aortic long axis view
00:56

Midesophageal ascending aortic short axis view
00:39

Aortic valve short axis view
00:47

Upper esophageal aortic arch long axis view
00:52

Upper esophageal aortic arch short axis view
00:32

Descending Aortic long axis view
00:36

Descending Aortic short axis view
00:50

Transgastric mid short axis view
01:30

Transgastric basal short axis view
00:24

Transgastric two chamber view
00:33

Transgastric long axis view
00:36

Transgastric RV inflow view
00:45

Mohamed El Wazir

Cardiologist and software developer

4.3 Instructor Rating
299 Reviews
4,247 Students
2 Courses

I'm a 31 year-old Egyptian cardiologist with over 7 years of experience. I'm also a computer programmer; web developer; and 2D/3D graphic designer, and I'm always striving to bring my two worlds together. I got the idea for VirtualEcho back when I was a resident cardiologist, struggling with echocardiography like everybody else, and decided I could do something to help make it easier for people to learn.