Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 24, Issue 10 , Pages 1057-1078, October 2011

Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Practice Guidelines and Recommendations for Training:

Writing group of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in collaboration with the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and the Association for European Pediatric Cardiologists (AEPC)

  • Luc Mertens, MD, PhD, FASE, FESC

      Affiliations

    • The Labatt Family Heart Center, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Istvan Seri, MD, PhD, HonD

      Affiliations

    • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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  • Jan Marek, MD, PhD, FESC

      Affiliations

    • Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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  • Romaine Arlettaz, MD

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Piers Barker, MD, FASE

      Affiliations

    • Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Patrick McNamara, MD, MB, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • The Labatt Family Heart Center, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Anita J. Moon-Grady, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of California, San Francisco, California
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  • Patrick D. Coon, RDCS, FASE

      Affiliations

    • The Cardiac Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  • Shahab Noori, MD, RDCS

      Affiliations

    • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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  • John Simpson, MD, FRCP, FESC

      Affiliations

    • Evelina Children’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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  • Wyman W. Lai, MD, MPH, FASE

      Affiliations

    • Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian, New York, New York

 

Keywords: Echocardiography, Neonatal intensive care unit, Neonatologists, pediatric cardiologists, Preterm neonate, Term neonate

Abbreviations: AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics, AEPC, Association for European Paediatric Cardiology, ASE, American Society of Echocardiography, CDH, Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, CHD, Congenital heart disease, EAE, European Association of Echocardiography, ECMO, Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, EF, Ejection fraction, LV, Left ventricular, MPI, Myocardial performance index, mVCFc, Mean velocity of circumferential fiber shortening, NICU, Neonatal intensive care unit, PA, Pulmonary artery, PDA, Patent ductus arteriosus, RA, Right atrial, RV, Right ventricular, RVSp, Right ventricular systolic pressure, SF, Shortening fraction, SVC, Superior vena cava, TEE, Transesophageal echocardiography, TNE, Targeted neonatal echocardiography, TVI, Time-velocity integral, 2D, Two-dimensional, VLBW, Very low birth weight

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 The following authors reported no actual or potential conflicts of interest in relation to this document: Luc Mertens, MD, PhD, FASE, FESC, Jan Marek, MD, PhD, FESC, Romaine Arlettaz, MD, Piers Barker, MD, FASE, Patrick McNamara, MD, MB, FRCPC, Anita J. Moon-Grady, MD, Patrick D. Coon, RDCS, FASE, Shahab Noori, MD, RDCS, John Simpson, MD, and Wyman W. Lai, MD, MPH, FASE. The following author reported a relationship with one or more commercial interests: Istvan Seri, MD, PhD, HonD, served as a scientific consultant for Somanetics Corporation (Troy, MI) until 2010.

 Reprint requests: American Society of Echocardiography, 2100 Gateway Centre Boulevard, Suite 310, Morrisville, NC 27560 (E-mail: ase@asecho.org).

 Writing Group of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in collaboration with the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC).

PII: S0894-7317(11)00537-2

doi:10.1016/j.echo.2011.07.014

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 24, Issue 10 , Pages 1057-1078, October 2011

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