Reporting for Echocardiography (updated)

SOME HELPFUL HINTS AND REFERENCES Basics Always record the patient’s height, weight and blood pressure Comment on technical quality List the clinical indications  Use of language: Language is important in echocardiography. The terminology we use is specific and descriptive but must also be professional and concise. The use of standard terminology across the echo world...

A standard Transthoracic Echocardiogram

I thought I'd start off with a normal echo performed to British Society of Echocardiography standards. As you can see, this was performed back in 2010 for my original BSE logbook. There have not been many changes to the protocol for a standard normal scan. Here is a link to the BSE Standard Guidelines