Description
For the trainee holding the probe
Echocardiography is the one cardiac investigation where the trainee usually performs the study as well as interprets it, and where a poor acquisition cannot be rescued by good interpretation. This 42-chapter guide is written with that in mind: each section deals with how the view is obtained before it deals with what the view shows.
430 notes in total, weighted towards the measurements and thresholds that carry decisions — aortic valve area and mean gradient, mitral regurgitation quantification, E/e′ and the diastolic function algorithm, TAPSE and RV assessment, pulmonary pressures, chamber volumes indexed properly rather than eyeballed.
The Academy imaging track
This is the designated text for the imaging component of the Academy’s cardiology pathway and the volume most often used by members preparing for accreditation-level echo assessment. It is also the one recommended to intensivists and emergency physicians building focused cardiac ultrasound competence, though those readers are directed to a defined subset of the chapters rather than the whole book.
What it covers
Standard transthoracic windows and their optimisation. Systematic left and right ventricular assessment. The full valvular sequence with quantification thresholds. Diastolic function, handled as the algorithm it is rather than as a set of isolated numbers. Pericardial disease and tamponade physiology. Endocarditis. Prosthetic valve assessment. Congenital lesions surviving into adulthood. Stress echo. Contrast. Strain imaging and where it currently changes management. Transoesophageal indications and views.
Reporting gets a chapter of its own — what belongs in a report, what should never be inferred beyond the images, and how to phrase an uncertain finding so the referring clinician knows it is uncertain.
Suited to
Cardiology residents and fellows, echo technologists, intensivists and emergency physicians, and Academy members on the imaging track.
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