My personal memorandum about Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Transducer Manipulation: What is "Tilt", "Rock", or "Angle"?
There seems to be a confusion in this area. For example, when you open up a textbook of echocardiography, one term may be explained in a completely different way from another textbook of POCUS. I once had a heated discussion with my colleague about the definition of each term since I learned from one textbook, whereas I believe he got the information somewhere else and to confess, now I believe he was right, and I was wrong. So where is the "GOLD" standard? The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) published a statement in 1999 where they define each maneuver, which could be used as a "GOLD" standard.
American Society of Echocardiography has recently published an article on how to perform a comprehensive transthoracic echocardiographic examination, in which they also specifically define these terms which are essentially the same with AIUM.
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