Echo Exam 1: Guiding Principles

The purpose of this series covering performing an Echocardiographic Exam is to assist the reader through the performance of both a basic and advanced transesophageal echocardiography examination as well as basic transthoracic echocardiography.

In this course, you will learn:

• Guiding principles, including TEE and TTE probe manipulation, describing the pathology and defining the physiology of the patient
• Presentation, and pre- and intra-operative considerations