BASIC Transthoracic Echocardiography
This is part of Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) course series. It is developed with the aim to provide participants with a basic understanding of transthoracic echocardiography. Our course consists of an electronic course manual for portable medias, an online pre-course multiple-choice questions (MCQs), interactive lectures, practical skills stations, and completion of a post-course MCQs. The electronic course manual can be downloaded as an “App” to conventional electronic media prior to the course.
Topics include:
- Indications of transthoracic echocardiography
- Principles of Ultrasound Imaging
- Basic Controls (Knobology)
- Image Acquisition
- Left Heart Assessment
- Right Heart Assessment
- Pericardial Disease
- Haemodynamic Assessment
- Artefacts
Local Course Convenor
Dr LAU Yie Hui
Senior Consultant,
Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Target Audience
The course is intended for ICU, Anaesthetics and Emergency department specialists and trainees interested in point of case transthoracic echocardiography.