r/cardiacsonography

Hi! I just finished my first week of school and I feel very overwhelmed lol. Obviously, I suck at scanning right now, but I’m not worried about that yet as I’ve only scanned 2/3 days for about 3hrs each.

The specific views are TRIPPING ME UP tho. No matter how much I try, I cannot for the life of me capture the right ventricular outflow view. I can do PLAX and in flow, but out flow is killing me.

I’m also having a hard time identifying the heart structures outside of PLAX view.

Also, physics is going to kill me. The only physics class I’ve ever taken was conceptual physics, so I’m already scared for that class and the physics registry exam…

Any tips for studying or scanning?

Our daughter is an incoming Junior (HS) this year interested in echocardiography. In WA state we have a program called Running Start where your junior and senior year you go to the local community college and graduate with your AA/AS and your diploma. She will be able to fulfill many pre-reqs this way. I’m curious on a couple of things:
• are there any 4 year schools with an echo program (think football teams, Greek life, etc)? She went to a very small high school and I know she’d like to experience “traditional” student life on a college campus.
• if she goes the smaller, med focused school, are there going to be issues with her being so young? She will graduate being 18. In WA state schools they have dorms for running start kids (18 yo in 300+ major level classes) so they’re with students in a similar spot.
• I worry if she goes the smaller school route, her being 18 in a cohort might leave her left out (unable to go for drinks after class or just being generally younger than her peers). Can anyone speak to this experience?

Thank you so much for any and all guidance!

Hello everyone,
I was wondering if you guys could share echo protocol followed at your work? I recently just started working and I work for a doctors office and they seem to not have a protocol and I wanna use this job as a learning opportunity and pretty much doing the basic stuff here is not going to help me out much I think. So I was wondering if you guys could help by sharing protocols followed at your hospital or clinics that could help me.
Thank you 😊

Im taking ESP adult echo this weekend in hopes of it being a refresher from school (grad last month). Anyone do the ESP course and feel like it really was a huge help? Anything I should do before class starts tomorrow? And what, did you do after the course that helped you pass the ARDMS exam?