How to do a Basic Transthoracic Echocardiogram: Transducer Position and Anatomy

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“How to Carry Out a Transthoracic Echocardiographic Study Volume 1: Transducer Position and Anatomy” is a training video, provided by ASE, and can be utilized for professional lectures and uses an interactive area for versatile presentations. The video includes an overview of relevant heart anatomy, an action by action presentation of all Transducer Positions, and the sequential transducer movements to get basic echo images required to finish a Transthoracic Echocardiographic Study.

The cardiac anatomy section imagines relationships of the heart, ribs, axis of the heart, planes of the heart and aorta, chambers, valves and annuli, and blood flow through the heart.
The transducer position menu enables the user to view the physiological landmarks and the transducer positions for left parasternal, apical, subcostal, suprasternal and best parasternal image acquisition.

The views and imaging menu allows the user to navigate from a particular transducer position menu such as left parasternal long to particular images obtained within that window such as PLAX high depth, PLAX low depth, and PLAX Zoom of the Aortic and Mitral Valves. Each animated loop reveals a finder image in the upper left that depicts the transducer position, an illustration of the sectional anatomy of the heart on the left, and the echo image with labels on the right.

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