Practical Echocardiography for Cardiac Sonographers

A practical, visual, authoritative quick-reference guide to mastering echocardiography

The most efficient and thorough way to learn echocardiography is visually. By seeing and comparing different variations of important echo findings, you shorten the learning process and build retention at the same time. Covering the essential techniques, standards, and cardiac disorders you need to know, Practical Echocardiography for Cardiac Sonographers is an innovative guide that takes you step by step through the scanning process in different disorders, helps you accurately interpret and clinically apply echocardiographic information, describes the physics of ultrasound in easy-to-understand language, and covers common and rare relevant cardiac conditions.
 
Formatted in a way that makes finding the right answers quick and easy, Echocardiography for Cardiac Sonographers delivers comprehensive fully rounded, interactive education that will get you up to speed on this critically important discipline in no time.

This comprehensive guide covers:

    Heart Failure
    Coronary Artery Disease
    Aortic Valve Disease
    Mitral valve Disease
    Prosthetic Valves
    Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
    Pericardial Disease
    Endocarditis
    Cardiac Tumors and Masses
    Pulmonary Disorders
    Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valves
    Aorta and Congenital Heart Disorders
    Stroke

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Physics of ultrasound

2. Imaging cardiac anatomy

3. Principles of Doppler

4. Echocardiographic measurements

5. Echocardiographic calculations

6. Echocardiographic instrument settings

7. Contrast ultrasound

8. Bubble physics and instrument settings

9. Tissue Doppler

10. Myocardial strain

11. Point of care ultrasound

12. Transesophageal imaging

13. Intracardiac and transcranial ultrasound

14. Vascular ultrasound

15. Left ventricular function

16. Diastology

17. Coronary artery disease

18. Wall motion abnormalities

19. Exercise stress testing

20. Pharmacologic stress testing

21. Myocardial perfusion

22. Complications of myocardial infarction

23. Systemic hypertension

24. Pulmonary disorders

25. Pulmonary hypertension

26. Evaluation of dyspnea

27. Valvular heart disease

28. Aortic stenosis

29. Aortic regurgitation

30. Mitral regurgitation

31. Mitral and tricuspid stenosis

32. Tricuspid regurgitation

33. Pulmonic valve regurgitation

34. Pulmonic valve stenosis

35. Heart failure

36. Cardiomyopathies

37. Dilated cardiomyopathy

38. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

39. Infiltrative cardiomyopathy

40. Disorders of the aorta

41. Aortic aneurysm

42. Aortic dissection

43. Endocarditis

44. Pericardial diseases

45. Pericardial effusion and tamponade

46. Pericardial constriction

47. Preoperative clearance

48. Atrial fibrillation and flutter

49. Imaging in structural heart disease

50. Cardiac tumors and masses

51. Cardio oncology

52. Imaging in the stroke patient

53. Imaging in rheumatological disorders

54. Imaging in the intensive care unit

55. Imaging in the emergency room

56. Imaging the elderly patient

57. Pregnancy

58. Pediatric imaging

59. Congenital heart disease

60. Atrial septal defects

61. Ventricular septal defects

62. Transposition of the great vessels

63. Congenital disorders of the tricuspid valve

64. Nomenclature in congenital heart disorders

65. Postoperative congenital heart disease

66. The stethoscope in echocardiography

67. The electrocardiogram in echocardiography

68. The chest x-ray

69. CT scan of the chest

70. MRI imaging of the heart

71. Internet resources

72. Guidelines

References