Echo Case 5
By Sharon Kay
Real ICU cases, with echos performed by ICU doctors, where echocardiography made the difference…
Test yourself here:
[az_tab_section] [tab title=”History” id=”tab-1″]Patient presents with SOB post TKR (Level 1 echo skills)[/tab][tab title=”Echo” id=”tab-2″][/tab] [tab title=”Answer” id=”tab-3″][/tab] [tab title=”More Resources” id=”tab-4″]Acquired right ventricular dysfunction
G B Bleeker, P Steendijk, E R Holman, M Yu, O A Breithardt, T A M Kaandorp, M J Schalij, E E van der Wall, J J Bax, P Nihoyannopoulos
Heart.2006 April; 92(Suppl 1): i14–i18. doi: 10.1136/hrt.2005.081547
Free article here
C Ginghina, GA Caloianu, M Serban, D Dragomir
J Med Life. 2010 August 15; 3(3): 242–253.
Free article here
Pierre’s Echo guide is here
The British Echo Society has some great free echo resources
This site from George John is tailored towards ICU echo. Also free once you register.
Here is a free and excellent echo atlas from Yale
Echo Basics, from Denmark is a simple an elegant site with excellent videos[/tab] [/az_tab_section]
