Echo

Question 1

What is doppler echocardiography utilized for?

Answer 1

To assess blood flow velocity, direction, and turbulence.

Question 2

Explain BART in terms of echo colors

Answer 2

Blue away, Red Toward

Yellow and Green is turbulence and high velocity

Question 3

T/F: Velocity can only be underestimated in echo

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What is the modified Bernoulli equation?

Answer 4

4x(velocity)^2=Pressure gradient

Question 5

What is normal velocity in the aortic valve and pulmonic valves?

Answer 5

1.5m/sec

Question 6

What does the bernoulli equation calculate?

Answer 6

Heart chamber pressures