Foundations of Echocardiography (FoE) is an immersive 5-day course that teaches students all of the theory and practical skills required to perform comprehensive transthoracic echocardiograms.
We have created this video tutorial primarily as an aid students attending the course. It is a walkthrough of a complete study performed on a normal individual, and takes students step-by-step through the different views obtained during a standard TTE, whilst demonstrating the important measurements that should be made.
As closely as we were able we have followed the structure laid out by the British Society of Echocardiography in their document 'A minimum dataset for a standard adult
transthoracic echocardiogram'. You can download the pdf of that document here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676441/pdf/echo-02-G9.pdf
If you are learning to echo and interested in attending one of our courses please check out our twitter account (@ EchoFoundations) for details of our next course dates.
Thanks for watching, Dr. Richard Fisher.
p.s. Many thanks to cardiac physiologist Dean Thomas and Dr. Jose Gil for their help in making this video.