Strain Imaging in Echocardiography: Converging on Congruence?
Imagine this scenario: Sonographer: Here’s the study on Mr Jones, your patient with aortic stenosis. Physician: Wait, we’ve always done Mr Jones on the HDI-5000, and we need to keep…
Jill (or Jack) of All Trades, Master of None?
Competency-based evaluation and training are the latest watchwords from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, now mandated in the Next Accreditation System and arriving on cardiology fellowships’ doorsteps in…
COCATS 4 Task Force 5: Training in Echocardiography
1 Introduction 1.1 Document Development Process 1.1.1 Writing Committee Organization The writing committee was selected to represent the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and included…
Passing the Torch of Leadership—The Bridge of Continued Excellence
Patrick D. Coon, RCCS, RDCS, FASE, Chair, Council on Cardiovascular Sonography Every two years the American Society of Echocardiography has a changing of the guard with respect to the Council…
Echo, the Cardiac Operating Room, and Intraoperative Echocardiography
Bradley S. Taylor, MD, MPH Mary Beth Brady, MD, FASE Confucius is credited with saying “To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”…
Echocardiographic Chamber Quantification in the Era of Multimodality Imaging: Beware of Unintended Consequences
An upgrade of the guidelines for chamber quantification recently has been published. The primary purpose of this guideline document is to set standard measurements, labels, and orientations so that there…
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…
A New Strategic Plan for a Thriving Organization
Susan E. Wiegers, MD, FASE, FACC As I assume the Presidency of the ASE, I have to acknowledge how surprised the echocardiography fellow would have been to know that 27…
Authors’ Reply
There are very few people in the world of echocardiography for whom we have more respect than Dr Feigenbaum. In fact, it is quite difficult to argue with someone of…
The Effect of Thrombolytic Use and Mechanical Ventilation on Echocardiographic Parameters of Survival after Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Sanfilippo et al . raise two important concerns pertaining to our article in JASE . In our study, we found that the ratio of right ventricular to left ventricular end-diastolic diameter,…
