Echo Basics
This imaging test uses high-frequency sound waves to create images of the heart.
What is an echocardiogram?
This is usually the first view obtained during a TTE.
What is the Parasternal Long-Axis (PLAX) view?
For the PLAX view, the probe is placed here.
What is the left sternal border between the 2nd and 4th intercostal spaces?
This imaging mode provides cross-sectional images of cardiac anatomy.
What is 2D echocardiography?
This Doppler modality measures low-velocity blood flow
What is Pulsed Wave (PW) Doppler?
This effect allows the transducer to convert sound waves into electrical signals.
What is the piezoelectric effect?
This view is created by rotating the transducer 90° clockwise from PLAX.
What is the Parasternal Short-Axis (PSAX) view?
In the PLAX view, the marker points toward this shoulder.
What is the right shoulder?
This echo mode has the highest temporal resolution.
What is M-Mode?
This Doppler modality measures high-velocity blood flow.
What is Continuous Wave (CW) Doppler?
The two major reasons for performing an echocardiogram are to evaluate heart structure and ________?
What is cardiac function?
This view displays all four heart chambers from the apex.
What is the Apical Four-Chamber view?
In the PSAX view, the marker points toward this shoulder.
What is the left shoulder?
This echo mode is used for measuring chamber dimensions and timing cardiac events.
What is M-Mode?
According to BART, this color represents blood moving toward the transducer.
What is red?
This is the most commonly performed type of echocardiogram.
What is a transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE)?
This apical view primarily displays the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the Apical Two-Chamber view?
The probe is placed here to obtain the Subcostal Four-Chamber view.
What is under the xiphoid process?
This mode is used to position the M-Mode cursor and Doppler sample volume.
What is 2D echocardiography?
According to BART, this color represents blood moving away from the transducer.
What is blue?
These are the two major categories of echocardiographic evaluation.
What are structural and functional evaluations?
This view is excellent for evaluating the interatrial septum and pericardial effusion.
What is the Subcostal Four-Chamber view?
This notch is used to obtain images of the aortic arch.
What is the suprasternal notch?
This imaging mode evaluates the direction and velocity of blood flow.
What is Doppler echocardiography?
This Doppler display uses multiple colors to represent blood flow direction and turbulence.
What is Color Flow Doppler?