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Written by Judith Buckland MBA, RDCS, FASE

2017 Inspiring Excellence in Imaging Winner

Inspiring Excellence in Imaging Award This year for Ultrasound Awareness Month, we asked you all to recognize yourself or a fellow sonographer or physician by submitting a story about a time you saved a day or made a difference. Here at CardioServ, we believe that each and every sonographer is...
2017 Inspiring Excellence in Imaging Winner
Written by Andrea Fields MHA, RDCS

Understanding the Basics: Evaluating Diastolic Function

Diastolic function is a complex process that simply refers to how well the heart performs during diastole, as blood is suctioned from the left atrium (LA) towards the apex of left ventricle (LV) at a low-pressure filling state. When the heart is unable to fill properly, filling pressures increase...
Understanding the Basics: Evaluating Diastolic Function
Written by Andrea Fields MHA, RDCS

Understanding the Basics: Pathophysiology of Diastole

Over the past weeks, we have gone back to the basics to have a good understanding of what occurs during diastole in order to properly evaluate diastolic function. If you've missed our prior blogs, you can find them here: Understanding Diastole Physiology of Diastole Our goal by the end...
Understanding the Basics: Pathophysiology of Diastole
Written by Andrea Fields MHA, RDCS

Understanding the Basics: Physiology of Diastole

We are breaking down the basics of diastolic dysfunction into easy to understand blogs! Last week we discussed the topic of diastole and the 4 stages that occur during this phase within the cardiac cycle. If you missed it, you can read it here! This week, we are going to go a step further and...
Understanding the Basics: Physiology of Diastole
Written by Andrea Fields MHA, RDCS

Understanding Diastole

In the past weeks we had guest writer, Michael Owen, share how to assess diastolic dysfunction.  He broke down the algorithm that ASE uses to evaluate the presence of dysfunction.  The full ASE article is long and intense.  Michael did a great job at simplifying the evaluation process.  While...
Understanding Diastole

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