Walking the Walk…or Achieving Quality Is Harder Than It Seems
With the increasing awareness of quality gaps in health care has come a growing appreciation that this is a problem that needs to be confronted head on. Echocardiography has embraced…
Value of Interactive Scanning for Improving the Outcome of New-Learners in Transcontinental Tele-Echocardiography (VISION-in-Tele-Echo) Study
Background Point-of-care (POC) echocardiography may be helpful for mass triage, but such a strategy requires adequately trained sonographers at the remote site. The aim of this study was to test…
Guidelines for the Use of Echocardiography as a Monitor for Therapeutic Intervention in Adults: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography
Attention ASE Members: The ASE has gone green! Visit www.aseuniversity.org to earn free continuing medical education credit through an online activity related to this article. Certificates are available for immediate…
Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
The rapid technological developments of the past decade and the changes in echocardiographic practice brought about by these developments have resulted in the need for updated recommendations to the previously…
Patterns of Left Ventricular Longitudinal Strain and Strain Rate in Olympic Athletes
Background Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is an emerging modality for the assessment of systolic and diastolic myocardial deformation in a broad variety of clinical scenarios. However, normal values and physiologic limits…
The Sonographer’s Role in TAVR Procedures
Eric Kruse, BS, RDCS, RVT “The practice of echocardiography is always growing and changing, and the role of the cardiovascular sonographer has evolved with the profession. Today we find ourselves…
Patterns of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Olympic Athletes
Background Whether morphologic left ventricular (LV) changes in elite athletes are associated with altered diastolic properties is undefined. The aim of this study was to investigate LV diastolic properties in…
IAC Vascular Testing
Susana Perese, BS, RVT, FASE The following is an interview with Susana Perese, BS, RVT, FASE by Fadi Shamoun, MD, FASE. Susana currently serves as a sonographer representative on the…
Heart Month and the ASE Foundation
Neil J. Weissman, MD, FASE Did you know… • About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year—that’s 1 in every 4 deaths. • Heart disease…
Continuing Education and Meeting Calendar
The American Society of Echocardiography is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ASE recognizes courses as supplements to formal training…
