Echo Extravaganza Part 3: The 5 E’s of Echocardiography
/Here’s comes another heaping helping of ultrasound highlights from our winter symposium’s echo extravaganza! In this serving, Dr. Heidi Kimberly teaches us how to identify and characterize the 5 E’s of echocardiography: effusion, ejection fraction, equality of the right and left ventricle, exit (aortic root) and entrance (IVC).
Heidi Kimberly, MD
Director of Emergency Ultrasound
Department of Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Edited and Posted by Jeffrey A. Holmes, MD