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…
Ken Horton RCS, RDCS, FASE Do you remember the day when you would pick up the phone and learn that there was a stat echo in the cath lab? You…
James D. Thomas, MD, FASE Do you know what keeps me up at night? Beyond the sad state of Cleveland sports, I fear that over time, echocardiography may be reduced…
Benjamin Eidem, MD, FASE In this communication, I wanted to highlight a recent publication from our council. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for training and utilization of focused…
We thank Dr. Sinha and colleagues for their interest in our recently published recommendations on targeted neonatal echocardiography (TNE). The authors nicely explain the way they developed a TNE service…
It has been more than a decade since the initial interest was expressed by neonatologists in acquiring basic skills in performing echocardiography. Their plea for a formalized training program has…
Background The Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) randomized trial was designed to identify an optimal management strategy for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. Baseline echocardiographic examinations were required for…
Background Pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) is frequently measured noninvasively using transthoracic echocardiography. Normal values of PASP are based on studies performed in heterogeneous populations. The normal values of PASP…
Background Although diabetes mellitus is well known to result in systolic and diastolic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction at the subclinical level, even when it is not accompanied by hypertension and…
Background The aim of this study was to examine the effect of heart rate (HR) on indices of deformation in adults with and without heart failure (HF) who underwent simultaneous…
