ECHO4CHD
Lessons
from the Heart
Joseph Daniel
CHD LEARNING RESOURCES
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Children’s Hospital of Boston
Description: Excellent video clips of congenital heart disease echoes
Includes diagrams, x-rays, pathology images, EKG’s
http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/mml/index.cfm?CAT=site&SITE_ID=457
Blaufuss Heart Sounds
Description: A marvelous large interactive heart animation of cardiac anatomy and heart sounds
Click on “start” to view different heart tutorials e.g. Heart Sounds Tutorial
http://www.blaufuss.org/
Echo in Context- Congenital Heart Disease
Description: A very good overview of echocardiography for CHD and using the segmental approach. See subsection drop down menu at the top of the page or click on Next at the bottom to browse through different sections of this site
http://www.echoincontext.com/advanced/chd_01.asp
The Cardiology.com Echo Online
http://www.thecardiology.com/Cases_main.htm
Yale Atlas of Congenital Heart Disease
Description: Covers a good number of CHD defects includes still frames, short video clips of echoes, and surgeries
http://www.med.yale.edu/intmed/cardio/chd/contents/index.html
Human Path: a site dedicated to human PATHOLOGY
Description: a terrific and rare site with many high quality images of pathology specimen including CHD and situs inversus/ asplenia, polysplenia etc.
http://www.humpath.com/-Heart-
Example Coarctation of the Ao
http://www.humpath.com/article.php3?id_article=4561
Situs ambiguus
http://www.humpath.com/situs-ambiguus
Cardiovascular Embryology from Univ. of Chicago
Description: Great animations of embryological development, for example click on Primitive Heart and scroll down (Note: make sure Quicktime player is loaded)
http://pediatriccardiology.uchicago.edu/MP/embryology/embryology.htm
Embryological Development video
Description: A more detailed and complete description and animation of fetal heart development with timeline labels for all stages of cardiac development
Click the link below first and fill out a pretest, you can opt not to put your email address, afterwards it will give you access to content. Well worth it!
http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/cvanim/
For example direct links
http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/cvanim/animations/yes_consent/htube/htube.html
Ao Arches
http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/cvanim/aarch/aarch.html
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Virtual Heart Museum and heart animations
Description: A visual virtual museum of the history of heart disease treatment & development. (Note: Requires Quicktime player)
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cardiovascular/museum.html
Cardiovascular Animations section
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cardiovascular/animations.html
Cincinnati Children’s Heart Center Encyclopedia
Description: Describes many defects and uses Flash animations as wellhttp://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/heart-encyclopedia/anomalies/avsd.htm
Echo Chief Description: A how to video on imaging coronary arteries
http://www.echochief.com/echochief_how_to_3d_corn.php
ASE GUIDELINES FOR PEDIATRIC ECHO
http://www.asecho.org/Guidelines.php
Medmovie.com
Description: Many different cardiovascular media libraries containing tens of images and interactive animations or video clips
http://www.medmovie.com/medialibrary/index.htm#
Many good animations but especially of interest are the Echocardiography Media Library AND the Pediatric Cardiology Media Library
The Echocardiography Media Library
An impressive video animation of a 3D heart followed by the ultrasound beam cut, the cross-section view and then superimposed upon the echocardiographic view
Pediatric Cardiology Media Library
Flash animations of CHD defects, side-by-side comparison to normal hearts and a brief overview of hemodynamics and repair
University of Virginia
Description: Colored Diagrams of CHDhttp://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/childrens-heart/pted/home.cfm
Heart ONE – 3D HEART
Description: play with a 3D heart model, click on intracardiac anatomy below model to see it fly out of the heart! Click on multiple pieces to seem them floating in the air.
http://heartone.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=96
Helen Taussig Children’s Heart Center – Johns Hopkins Univ.
Description: a good primer with flashing diagrams of most CHD defects. Contains a section on
Adult Congenital Heart disease
http://pted.org/
Example: Fontan operation http://pted.org/htms/fontan1.php
Color Doppler Sonography in assessment of Fetal heart http://www.centrus.com.br/DiplomaFMF/SeriesFMF/doppler/capitulos-html/chapter_12.htm
See My Heart
Description: Another great Medmovie animation
>> Click on the “Show Me” link
http://www.seemyheart.org/tte.php#
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY NETOWRK- FULL LENGTH open heart surgery videos for congenital heart disease http://www.ctsnet.org/sections/clinicalresources/videos/index.html
OTHER SITES OF INTEREST
CHD Kids
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V8-bouhnzD4
CHD H.E.A.R.T.~Hope for MORE tomorrows! A touching site that is put out by parents of children with CHD and those interested in raising awareness of CHD, see videos
http://www.myspace.com/chdheartfoundation
JACC Journal of the American College of Cardiology CME’s
3D animation of a pulmonary embolism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnhK_FK4WDQ
Heart Function “bubbles” innovative animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2OAsAUIT0
Heart in Utero
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q7JEVNvfR04
OR LIVE on YouTube featuring an ASD Closure full length surgery (63 minutes). It is an educational guided surgery with narrative from MD’s in the OR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJL-oPmkLp0
Detailed anatomy of the entire cardiovascular system
http://www.innerbody.com/image/cardov.html
Los Angeles Society of Echo
http://www.lase.org/index.html
CME’s from eMedicine / CHD articles
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/CARDIOLOGY.htm
Other CME
ACC Amer. College of Card.
http://www.cardiosource.com/casestudies/browse.asp?topicID=8
http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/education/proff_leadership/products/msucmehs.html
JOURNALS
American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)
http://journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/ymje
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
http://content.onlinejacc.org/
Circulation
http://circ.ahajournals.org/
Echocardiography: a journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasoundhttp://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0742-2822
BOOKS
Echocardiographic Diagnosis of CHD by Lilliam M. Valdes-Cruz
The Pediatric Echocardiographer's Pocket Reference by Terry Reynolds
Echocardiography In Pediatric Heart Disease by Rebecca Snider (hard to find/ out of print)
Illustrated Field Guide to Congenital Heart Disease and Repair
Atlas of Heart Disease: Congenital Heart Disease, Volume 12 (Atlas of Heart Diseases, V. 12) (Hardcover) by Eugene Braunwald
VIDEOS
Something The Lord Made - (2004) click on film title to see trailer
Partners of the Heart (PBS link)
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