 | This article needs more reliable medical references for verification or relies too heavily on primary sources. Please review the contents of the article and add the appropriate references if you can. Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2018) |  |
| Focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography | |
|---|---|
| Purpose | type of transthoracic echocardiogram, |
Focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography (or FATE) is a type of transthoracic echocardiogram, or sonogram of the heart, often performed by non-cardiologist. The protocol has been used since 1989 and has four projections; subcostal four-chamber, apical four-chamber, parasternal long axis and parasternal short axis.
The original focused cardiac ultrasound protocol for non-cardiologists was devised by Dr Erik Sloth in 1989 and has formed the basis of hands-on FATE courses ever since.
The success of the original protocol has inspired a surge of replicas in many shapes and the coining of many imaginative acronyms: FEER, FEEL, Focus, Bleep, HART, FUSE etc. These are all variations of the original theme .
Gallery
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||
| Each figure contains a TTE with a black background, and a corresponding colored illustration. | Patrick J. Lynch and C. Carl Jaffe, Yale University, 2006. | ||||||||||
| Click on a figure to enlarge it and see some parts of the heart identified. RV, right ventricle; LV, left ventricle; RA, right atrium; LA, left atrium; TV, tricuspid valve; MV, mitral valve; AV, aortic valve; RVOT, right ventricular outflow tract; LVOT, left ventricular outflow tract | |||||||||||
See also
References
External links
- Official FATE protocol website with downloadable FATE card
 | This article related to medical technology is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |