Echocardiography Clinical Externship
One year full-time clinical experience •Perform full protocol adult transthoracic (TTE) echocardiograms, stress echocardiograms, transesophageal (TEE) echocardiograms, and contrast studies on GE Vivid 7 Ultrasound machines•Perform transesophageal echocardiograms on Philips Ultrasound machines•Have been the sonographer in TEE’s•Have been scanning independently with indirect supervision for 8 months•Participated in approximately 912 studies and actually performed 608 of the studies- including TTE, TEE, stress echocardiograms, pediatric echocardiograms•2D, M-Mode, PW Doppler, CW Doppler- including Pedoff transducer, Color Doppler modalities •Limited pediatric experience •Inpatient and outpatient testing•Compose preliminary reports- Synapse ProSolv Cardiovascular software•Communicate effectively with patients and medical personnel