UCSD Anesthesia Echocardiography

01/29/2024

Our new and improved Echo preceptorship starts off what we hope will be another successful year. With new section on POCUS and live patient workshops, there has never been a better time to enjoy San Diego and get your CMEs at the same time !

06/25/2023

Folks, announcing our anesthesia update. Great place to get some CME, and to enjoy the weather, food and attractions San Diego has to offer !

https://anesthesia.ucsd.edu/education/courses-conferences/anesthesiology-update/index.html

02/11/2022

Now available!

If you wanted to add Basic Perioperative TEE and TTE/POCUS to your practice, this is the textbook for you. Edited by two UCSD faculty, Timothy Maus from Cardiac Anesthesia and Christopher Tainter from Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine. Numerous chapters by well known UCSD faculty! Now with more figures, more echo video clips and board review style questions and answers.

Grab your copy now!

Essential Echocardiography: A Review of Basic Perioperative TEE and Critical Care Echocardiography

Essential Echocardiography: A Review of Basic Perioperative TEE and Critical Care Echocardiography

09/24/2019

77 year old for a on-pump CABG with ischemic cardiomyopathy. We found AS, quantified as per the video. It was elected to not replace the aortic valve. Would you have done differently? Please let us know.

10/19/2018

Behold a unique coronary setup with dual Ostia for LAD and LCX from the sinus behind the left coronary cusp. The right ostium was difficult to see due to shadowing from a calcific valve but it was there!

Music by Ryan Cullinane

09/16/2018

Save the date. And come join us for another exciting edition of UCSD’s TEE review course! Live intraoperative case, Echo jeopardy and world renowned speakers. Registration open at
www.regonline.com/builder/site/?eventid=2527380

04/02/2018

Here is the answer to yesterday's question. Do nothing, since nothing needs to be done. The thrombus was not easily imaged using harmonic frequencies ( as noted in the HGEN written near the top left of the screen), but is seen easily with regular imaging. Although Tissue Harmonic imaging (THI) helps overcome imaging difficulties, it can result in degradation of axial resolution, especially in the near field. Thanks to everyone who played !

04/01/2018

Elderly lady for cardiac surgery with a known thrombus at the junction of the arch and the descending. Weaning from bypass coincided with thrombus disappearance as shown. What would you do next?
1) post operative anticoagulation
2) intravascular ultrasound to detect thrombus location
3) operative exploration of the aorta to make sure the head vessels are free of it
4) do nothing

Music by Ryan Cullinane, audionautix.com