Echo Case 5

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

Right ventricular myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism differential diagnosis –a challenge for the clinician

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]