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Cardiac ultrasound or echocardiography is a useful non-invasive imaging technique for the assessment of cardiac structure and function. Cardiac surgeons are uniquely suited to harness this versatile imaging technique both inside and outside the perioperative or transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) setting. With the advent of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), access and utility of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) can now be appropriately focused for rapid assessment of ventricular systolic function, the intracardiac valves, great vessels, and the pericardium. This chapter is an illustrated atlas that covers the fundamentals of echocardiography that cardiac surgeons and trainees can use as foundation for engagement with echocardiography. It begins with a basic introduction to the technique and covers the fundamentals of echocardiographic anatomy as presented on TTE and TEE, the nomenclature and emanation protocols, echo anatomy of the coronary artery territories and the intracardiac valves.
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Bulwer, B.E. (2022). Echocardiography for Cardiac Surgeons. In: Kpodonu, J. (eds) Global Cardiac Surgery Capacity Development in Low and Middle Income Countries. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83864-5_21
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