ECHO archives

Below you'll find the latest issue of ECHO as well as our archives going back to 2017.

Please note that any clinical information is for reference only and may have been superseded by updated guidance.

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ECHO 125 - March 2024

Posted on 3/15/2024
This issue includes an approach to using echo in the assessment of AVMs, an acute medic’s journey to BSE level 1 accreditation, a look at two centres’ experience of gaining the BSE Echo Quality Accreditation and three interesting case reports
  

ECHO 124 - December 2023

Posted on 12/12/2023
Largely featuring the conference report, this issue also includes a piece from the National Physiological Transformation Programme's about the national stocktake of echo services, and a report on Advanced imaging 2023
  

ECHO 123 - September 2023

Posted on 9/1/2023
Including: Reflections on 30 years of the BSE, a review of EACVI 2023 in Barcelona and information about advanced practice.
  

ECHO 122 - June 2023

Posted on 6/1/2023
Including: the BSE + ICE 2023 conference report, workforce updates and an audit of inpatient echo services.
  

ECHO 121 - March 2023

Posted on 3/1/2023
Including: triage and managing the national waiting list, echocardiography training and echo leadership development.
  

ECHO 120 - December 2022

Posted on 12/1/2022
Including: the BSEcho 2022 review, recent position statements and tips on collecting video cases for BSE accreditation.
  

ECHO 120 - December 2022

Posted on 12/1/2022
Including: the BSEcho 2022 review, recent position statements and tips on collecting video cases for BSE accreditation.
  

ECHO 119 - September 2022

Posted on 9/1/2022
Including: the benefits of a face to face conference, Tips on collecting video cases for BSE accreditation, A case report on valvular atrial myxoma, as well as a feature on the regional reps network.
  

ECHO 118 - June 2022

Posted on 6/1/2022
Including: an update on BSE workforce report and next steps, adapting TOE recovery times to ease waiting list pressures, making use of the BSE primary care triage document, as well as your regular content.
  

ECHO 117 - March 2022

Posted on 3/1/2022
Including: Responding to NICE valve guideline proposals, recent position statements and Lung ultrasound for cardiac sonographers: a primer, as well as your regular content.
  

ECHO 116 - December 2021

Posted on 12/1/2021
Including: BSEcho 2021 conference report, Reflections on 30 years of the BSE and Learning from the MHRA Alert on 1st Generation Trifecta Valves, as well as your regular content.
  

ECHO 115 - September 2021

Posted on 9/1/2021
Including: Quads on the double at Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise - but not in the Maternity Ward!, Lung ultrasound for cardiac sonographers: a primer and The Pickelhaube Sign – Pickel-who?
  

ECHO 114 - June 2021

Posted on 6/1/2021
Including: Interview with Dr Abbas Zaidi on producing and publishing a BSE guideline, Ebstein’s anomaly and Echocardiography service development audit.
  

ECHO 113 - March 2021

Posted on 3/1/2021
Including: Using 4D acquisition to assess the limitations on RV radial assessment in PSAX windows, Going the extra mile... and Cardiac manifestation of chronic eosinophilic leukaemia.
  

ECHO 112 - December 2020

Posted on 12/1/2020
Including: BSEcho 2020 review, congenital accreditation and Assessment of echo diagnostic clinics completed in patients homes as a response to the Covid-19 crisis.
  

ECHO 111 - September 2020

Posted on 9/1/2020
Including: BSEcho 2020, notice of AGM and from COVID to Twitter, AI to 3D curvature analysis: In conversation with Professor Luigi Badano
  

ECHO 110 - June 2020

Posted on 6/1/2020
Including: The role of the two-chamber view in the assessment of eccentric aortic regurgitation, Echo debates and Echo in a community cardiology clinic during the coronavirus pandemic
  

ECHO 109 - March 2020

Posted on 3/1/2020
Including: Right ventricle dilation in cardiac arrest, Seeing with sound from Liberia to Ireland and International primate heart project
  

ECHO 108 - December 2019

Posted on 12/1/2019
Including: BSEcho 2019 conference report
  

ECHO 107 - September 2019

Posted on 12/1/2019
Including: Community heart failure diagnostics clinics, Patient experience and Non-urgent adult TTE