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Basic Echocardiography Course

From physics to anatomy, and assessment of heart chambers and valvular structures.

The European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) widens the portfolio of educational products offered to its members by providing this online Basic Echocardiography Course.

The board members of the EAE want to present with this illustrated basic course an easy and fruitful instrument in education of echocardiography. The theoretical knowledge about transthoracic echocardiography with some practical comments is presented in convincing and self-explaining presentations.

The slide format has been chosen to overcome the main limitation of conventional echo books that can show only static figures, while the main landmark of echocardiography is to look at the heart and blood flow in motion. This is a huge opera that consists of 1062 slides which contain 857 videos and are subdivided into 16 chapters covering all basic echocardiography topics: from physics to anatomy, and assessment of heart chambers and valvular structures.

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The complete Basic Echocardiography Course consists of 16 slide sets (chapters) with the following themes:  

  Standardized sectional planes  Access for free
  Physics of echocardiographic imaging  Access for free
Rheology of blood flow  Access for free
Introduction into the Doppler echocardiography  Access for free

Access more chapters
The EAE Basic echocardiography course includes
12 more chapters available for EAE members.

Want to see the other chapters?
Become an EAE member: join the CLUB!

 Anatomical structures of the heart

 
  Restricted to members
Mitral and tricuspid valve   Restricted to members
Left and right ventricle  Restricted to members

 Improvements of image quality and documentation

 Equipment settings and artefacts   Restricted to members
 The advanced basic of the standardized investigation in echocardiography   Restricted to members
 Possible errors and misleading interpretation   Restricted to members

Evaluation fo the mitral and aortic valves

 Evaluation of the mitral valve   Restricted to members
 Evaluation of the aortic valve   Restricted to members

 Evaluation of the diastolic and systolic function

 Evaluation of systolic function   Restricted to members
 Evaluation of diastolic function   Restricted to members

Coming soon

 Echocardiography in hypertension

 Coming soon
 Summary of the basic Course  Coming soon


An international accreditation for documenting competence in transthoracic echocardiography in adults is offered by EAE. This accreditation procedure includes a written examination to test theroretical and practical issues of echocardiography.

This course is also designed to offer EAE members to get information about the basics of transthoracic echocardiography, which is the content of the catalogue checked in the written examination.

The online Basic Echocardiography Course has been developed by Prof. Andreas Hagendorff and its content has been reviewed by Dr. Madalina Garbi on behalf of the EAE Education Committee.