Description
Take your echocardiography skills to the next level by refining the details that matter most.
This webinar, taught by Eric Lindquist, DMV (Italy), DABVP, Cert. IVUSS, focuses on optimizing image quality and improving measurement accuracy across every stage of the echocardiogram from B-mode to M-mode to Doppler. You will learn practical techniques to produce cleaner images, avoid common pitfalls, and adapt your approach to a wide range of cardiac pathologies, ensuring your studies are both consistent and diagnostic.
The webinar emphasizes functional cardiology in daily practice, including the apical 5-chamber view, Starling’s Law, and the role of the heart as a dynamic pump. Key topics include LV M-mode anatomy, assessment of DCM, EPSS, left atrial measurement techniques (LA max, LA/Ao, and the June Boon method), heart base evaluation, and pulmonary artery Doppler.
Perfect for clinicians seeking greater confidence, efficiency, and precision in every echo they perform.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate correct image acquisition and alignment to obtain accurate and repeatable echocardiographic measurements.
- Optimise echocardiographic image quality using B-mode, M-mode, and Doppler techniques for improved diagnostic confidence.
- Recognise and correct common echocardiographic measurement and Doppler errors, including issues related to angle, scale, and gain.
- Apply practical troubleshooting strategies when measurements are inconsistent with clinical presentation or expected physiology.
- Implement standardised measurement approaches for left ventricular, left atrial, and heart base assessment to improve study consistency and interpretation.
- Gain clarity on Doppler knobology, normal mitral and tricuspid colour flow, proper LVOT alignment, and how to recognize and correct common measurement and Doppler errors.
