Tips & Tricks in Fetal Echocardiography

Monitoring the heart beat of a foetus is especially difficult due to constant changes in foetal position.

This book is an easy to use reference providing physicians and sonographers with useful tips on how best to perform a foetal echocardiograph, allowing them to accurately evaluate normal and abnormal heart beat.

Basic cardiac anatomy is described in detail and numerous ultrasound images assist understanding.

Key points

• Concise guide to performing a foetal echocardiograph
• Allows easy comparison of normal and abnormal heart beat
• Basic cardiac anatomy described in detail
• Includes nearly 200 ultrasound images

1. Introduction
2. Prerequisites
3. Salient Features
4. Fetal Visceral Situs
5. Size
6. Axis
7. Cardiac Anatomy
8. Views
9. Summary

Kuldeep Singh MBBS FAUI FICMCH FICMU
Consultant Ultrasonologist, Dr Kuldeep’s Ultrasound and Color Doppler Clinic, New Delhi, India