Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
We recently reviewed a case during a local hospital quality improvement meeting that required us to assess whether or not there was prosthetic aortic valve stenosis. It was interesting to touch up on the key parameters that should be assessed. This week we will review the key points...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
60/60
Echo Sign
Last month we presented Echo in Pulmonary Embolism. One of the echo findings associated with acute pulmonary embolism is the echo 60/60 sign. What is the echo 60/60 sign? This week we will learn the features of the 60/60 sign in echocardiography and its...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
Last week we posted an article on acute pulmonary embolism in echocardiography. In that post we discussed how echo is good for ruling-in pulmonary embolism but not for ruling-out a pulmonary embolism. After diagnosing a pulmonary embolism what is the role of echo? Many studies have...
Written by Rhiannon Anderson, B.A. and Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
In the early days of our blog (2015) we published an article on the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in echo. Since then our audience has grown and additional research results have been published. This week we will review this past article and provide updates based on the latest...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
In this week's sonographer spotlight we will introduce you to Presley Painter. She was one of our 2018 Mentor Award Winners. She was nominated by Shannon Fulerson. Shannon shared with us how Presley takes time to work with countless sonographers to teach and mentor them.
"Presley takes so...