ALBERTA SONO
  • Home
  • About
    • The Team
    • Social Media
    • Research >
      • COVID Shunt Study
      • Echo-AKI
      • Curriculum design & implementation
    • Events >
      • ABSono Rounds >
        • ABSono Rounds Recordings
      • Joint Rounds
    • Training >
      • CCUS Rotation
      • Clinical CCUS Fellowship
      • eCLass Ultrasound
  • Sonology
    • Physics of ultrasound
    • Transducer manipulation
    • Image optimization
    • Machines >
      • X-Porte
      • EDGE
    • Quality >
      • Essentials QPath E
      • Submitting for QA
    • Critical Thinking
  • Echo
    • Standard echo views >
      • Echo in shock VR
    • LV Function Assessment >
      • Regional cardiac anatomy
    • Pitfalls in LV assessment
    • Pericardial space
    • RV function assessment
    • Inferior vena cava
    • Cardiac Output
    • Echo in VTE
    • The Echo Lab >
      • Standard acquisition
      • Key references
    • TEE >
      • Focused 4-view
      • Shunts and Bubble Studies
  • Lung US
    • Overview
    • Pneumothorax detection
    • Interstitial diseases
    • LUS in respiratory failure
    • Pleural Effusion Assessment
    • LUS in Covid-19
  • Procedural US
    • VR in HALO
    • Central line (IJ)
    • Central line (Subclavian)
    • Central line (Femoral)
    • Thoracentesis
    • Paracentesis
    • U/S-guided PIV
  • Trauma US
    • eFAST fundamentals
    • eFAST Core Knowledge
    • The Thorax
    • The Heart
    • The Abdomen
  • Neuro
    • Optic nerve sheath diameter
    • Transcranial Doppler
  • GIMUS
    • GIMUS Rounds
    • Rules of GIMUS
  • References and links
    • References
    • Helpful links

Key references

The echo lab

Textbooks
Labos, Christopher. Put the probe here;The First (But Not the Last) Echo Book You Should Read. 2017. Available on Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/put-the-probe-here/id929427087

Online interactive learning (*excellent iPad app for learning standard windows)

http://pie.med.utoronto.ca/

American Society of Echocardiography Guidelines
https://www.asecho.org/ase-guidelines-by-publication-date/

Image Acquistion
Mitchell C, Rahko PS, Blauwet LA, Canaday B, Finstuen JA, Foster MC, et al. Guidelines for Performing a Comprehensive Transthoracic Echocardiographic Examination in Adults: Recommendations from the American Society of Echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr [Internet]. 2019;32(1):1–64.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2018.06.004

​Key ACC/AHA Guidelines
Nagueh SF, Smiseth OA, Appleton CP, Byrd BF, Dokainish H, Edvardsen T, et al. Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. Eur Hear J – Cardiovasc Imaging [Internet]. 2016;17(12):1321–60. Available from: https://academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/ehjci/jew082
​
Saric M, Armour AC, Arnaout MS, Chaudhry FA, Grimm RA, Kronzon I, et al. Guidelines for the Use of Echocardiography in the Evaluation of a Cardiac Source of Embolism. J Am Soc Echocardiogr [Internet]. 2016;29(1):1–42. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2015.09.011

Porter TR, Shillcutt SK, Adams MS, Desjardins G, Glas KE, Olson JJ, et al. Guidelines for the use of echocardiography as a monitor for therapeutic intervention in adults: A report from the american society of echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr [Internet]. 2015;28(1):40–56. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2014.09.009

Zoghbi WA, Adams D, Bonow RO, Enriquez-Sarano M, Foster E, Grayburn PA, et al. Recommendations for Noninvasive Evaluation of Native Valvular Regurgitation: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography Developed in Collaboration with the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2017;30(4):303–71. 

Further Reading by sub-specialty
​Critical Care Echocardiography

Kirkpatrick JN, Grimm R, Johri AM, Kimura BJ, Kort S, Labovitz AJ, et al. Recommendations for Echocardiography Laboratories Participating in Cardiac Point of Care Cardiac Ultrasound (POCUS) and Critical Care Echocardiography Training: Report from the American Society of Echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr [Internet]. 2020;33(4):409-422.e4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2020.01.008

Price S, Via G, Sloth E, Guarracino F, Breitkreutz R, Catena E, et al. Echocardiography practice, training and accreditation in the intensive care: document for the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS). Cardiovasc Ultrasound [Internet]. 2008;6(1):49. Available from: http://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-6-49

Labovitz AJ, Noble VE, Bierig M, Goldstein SA, Jones R, Kort S, et al. Focused cardiac ultrasound in the emergent setting: a consensus statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and American College of Emergency Physicians. J Am Soc Echocardiogr [Internet]. 2010 Dec;23(12):1225–30. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21111923



Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About
    • The Team
    • Social Media
    • Research >
      • COVID Shunt Study
      • Echo-AKI
      • Curriculum design & implementation
    • Events >
      • ABSono Rounds >
        • ABSono Rounds Recordings
      • Joint Rounds
    • Training >
      • CCUS Rotation
      • Clinical CCUS Fellowship
      • eCLass Ultrasound
  • Sonology
    • Physics of ultrasound
    • Transducer manipulation
    • Image optimization
    • Machines >
      • X-Porte
      • EDGE
    • Quality >
      • Essentials QPath E
      • Submitting for QA
    • Critical Thinking
  • Echo
    • Standard echo views >
      • Echo in shock VR
    • LV Function Assessment >
      • Regional cardiac anatomy
    • Pitfalls in LV assessment
    • Pericardial space
    • RV function assessment
    • Inferior vena cava
    • Cardiac Output
    • Echo in VTE
    • The Echo Lab >
      • Standard acquisition
      • Key references
    • TEE >
      • Focused 4-view
      • Shunts and Bubble Studies
  • Lung US
    • Overview
    • Pneumothorax detection
    • Interstitial diseases
    • LUS in respiratory failure
    • Pleural Effusion Assessment
    • LUS in Covid-19
  • Procedural US
    • VR in HALO
    • Central line (IJ)
    • Central line (Subclavian)
    • Central line (Femoral)
    • Thoracentesis
    • Paracentesis
    • U/S-guided PIV
  • Trauma US
    • eFAST fundamentals
    • eFAST Core Knowledge
    • The Thorax
    • The Heart
    • The Abdomen
  • Neuro
    • Optic nerve sheath diameter
    • Transcranial Doppler
  • GIMUS
    • GIMUS Rounds
    • Rules of GIMUS
  • References and links
    • References
    • Helpful links