This Harvard Medical School Continuing Education video examines the key question: how does one acquire parasternal long-axis and short-axis views in cardiac point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)?
Dr. Aidan Sharkey, MD, an anesthesiologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston, describes the proper techniques for using portable ultrasound equipment at a patient’s bedside to obtain high-quality parasternal cardiac ultrasounds. Image acquisition and normal sonoanatomy are demonstrated and how these images are used in patient care is discussed.
This video was peer reviewed by Dr. Jonathan Salik, TMD, MHPEd, Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Dr. Sugantha Sundar, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, to validate the quality and accuracy of the content. It was edited by affiliate physicians of Harvard Medical School, Avanthi Raghavan, MD Cardiology Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Anna Handorf, MD, Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital.
00:00 | Introduction
00:38 | How to acquire parasternal long-axis views with POCUS
03:51 | How to acquire parasternal short-axis views with POCUS
05:50 | Summary
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Images and scans courtesy of Dr. Aidan Sharkey, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. ©2022
Notice: At this time, the content in this video is not accredited.
