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
This week, in our spotlight article, we featured one of our 2018 Mentor Award winners, Dr. Ahmed Said Saad. One of the reasons Dr. Said was noiminated is for his educational Facebook Group that includes an echo case study atlas! In addition, interesting case studies are uploaded regularily....
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
Earlier this year we announced the 2018 Inspiring Excellence in Imaging Mentor Award Winners. As promised, we would like to introduce you to our winners. This week we will feature Ahmed Said Saad, MD from Egypt.
Training and Experience
Ahmed finished his cardiovascular training in...
Written by Wendy Sowa-Maldarelli, MS, RT, RDCS and Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
As a sonographer, you may have heard about the Watchman procedure. You may have heard of it at a conference, through a journal, or perhaps at your own institution. Since echo, specifically transesophageal echo (TEE) is an integral part of the Watchman intraprocedural oversight, sonographers...