Learn the full echo ultrasound protocol that meets and exceeds the ICA Standards and Guidelines for Echocardiography Accreditation. Just starting to learn echocardiography or need a quick refresher for that echo job interview? This app will quickly get you up speed on the full TTE (transthoracic echocardiogram) protocol currently used in a major hospital from a practicing echo technologist's point of view while also providing the starting cardiac sonographer with a concise detailed "how to" guideline on a complete echo exam. The app consists of over 90% video clips displaying proper views and also showing the most common abnormal cardiac pathology (e.g. aortic stenosis) that an echo tech will likely encounter and what to do.
Features include:
• STEP BY STEP VIDEO CLIPS SHOWING THE ENTIRE ECHO PROTOCOL
• START ANYWHERE! EASY ACCESS ICONS TO THE PARASTERNAL APICAL SUBCOSTAL AND SUPRASTERNAL VIEWS OR VIEW THE ENTIRE PROTOCOL IN SEQUENCE
• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/EXAMPLE PAGES SHOWING ABNORMAL PATHOLOGY (E.G. AORTIC DISSECTION) ALLOWING EASY COMPARISON OF NORMAL VS ABNORMAL

*NEW: A GUIDE ON OPTIMIZING CONTRAST AGENTS SUCH AS DEFINITY OR LUMASON DERIVED FROM MY NOTES FROM CONTRAST SEMINARS AND THE OFFICIAL AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY GUIDELINES ON HOW TO OPTIMIZE THE USE OF CONTRAST AGENTS FOR THE CARDIAC SONOGRAPHER