Echocardiography
Training in echocardiography is provided each year with a 4 week course taught by Stanford cardiologists with emphasis on basic echocardiographic techniques with helpful case examples.
The goal of this course is to allow critical care fellows to use echocardiography to assist in the bedside assessment of critically ill patients in order to quickly assess volume status (e.g. inferior venal caval diameter) and to identify cardiac tamponade, cardiac function (e.g. significant wall motion abnormalities) and major valve dysfunction.
TEE Education Conference
5-6 pm Anesthesia Conference RoomPhysics of Ultrasound - Dr. HILL August 18, 2008
1. Probe
2. Processing
3. Artifacts
4. Safety
Doppler Analysis - Dr. SIEGAL September 1, 2008
1. Continuous Wave
2. Pulsed-Wave
3. Continuity Equation
4. PISA
5. RF/RF/ERO
6. Qp/Qs, CO
Basic Introduction of LV and RV Function - Dr. KANVESKY September 15, 2008
1. Wall segment nomenclature
2. Coronary anatomy correlation
3. Methods of estimating EF
4. FS
5. FAC
6. MOD
7. Volume assessment
Diastolic Function - Dr. SORAN September 29, 2008
1. Atrio-ventricular inflow patterns
2. Pulmonary vein flow patterns
3. Tissue Doppler
4. Vp
5. Hepatic Vein flow patterns
