Echo Cardiography – Dr. Wael Labib (Live)

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🔴 LIVE on the Medplus platform · 7 Lectures · Access for 6 months after course completion

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Course Overview

Echocardiography is an imaging technique that visualizes the structure and function of the heart using ultrasound waves. The course consists of 7 live lectures covering basic and advanced cases, medical management and critical care.

We start from scratch: designed for beginners — we explain the basics of the different echocardiography views, both theory and practice, with hands-on training on normal cases, then move to real pathological cases, medical report writing and comprehensive case management.

What You Will Achieve

  • Echo basics: physics, techniques and standard views
  • Adult echo: diagnose valve diseases and heart-muscle problems, and assess heart function
  • Critical care echo: identify urgent conditions like pericardial effusion, aortic dissection and pulmonary embolism
  • ICU applications: evaluate hemodynamics and fluid responsiveness, and guide life-saving procedures
  • Advanced techniques: tissue Doppler, speckle tracking, contrast echo and TEE
  • Advanced topics: cardiomyopathies, IHD, heart failure, pericardial diseases and cardiac masses
  • Medical report writing and comprehensive case management

Course Outline

Lecture Main Topic Key Points
1 Basics of Echocardiography Echo machine & probes
Standard views (parasternal, apical, subcostal, suprasternal)
Normal values
Normal anatomical variants
2 Rheumatic Heart Disease – Mitral Valve & Pathologies Rheumatic mitral valve disease
Mitral valve prolapse
Mitral stenosis & regurgitation (MS & MR)
3 Aortic Valve Disorders Overview of aortic valve disease
Bicuspid aortic valve
Aortic regurgitation & stenosis (AR & AS)
4 Ischemic Heart Disease Echo findings in ischemia
Regional wall motion analysis
Post-MI complications (aneurysm, rupture, tamponade)
5 Heart Failure Diastolic heart failure (HFpEF)
Systolic heart failure (HFrEF)
6 Pulmonary Vascular Disorders Pulmonary hypertension
Cor pulmonale
Pulmonary embolism
7 Congenital Heart Defects & Advanced Techniques VSD, ASD, PDA
Cardiac masses

Your Instructor – Dr. Wael Labib

  • Cardiology consultant with 20+ years of experience in CCU, ICU & private clinics
  • Instructor in MRCP, cardiology, ECG and emergency medical courses
  • Senior cardiologist in CCU/ICU & echocardiographer – El Ray El Saleh Hospital, Minia (2012–2018)
  • Cardiology resident – El Mataria Teaching Hospital & private hospitals (Anglo-American, El Ray El Saleh Shobra, El Kebty) (2007–2012)
  • Cardiologist & echocardiographer at his own private clinic (2012–present)
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What Will You Learn?

  • Echo basics: physics, techniques and standard views
  • Diagnose valvular diseases, cardiac muscle disorders and assess ventricular function
  • Recognize critical conditions: pericardial effusion, aortic dissection and pulmonary embolism
  • Use echo in critical care: hemodynamics, fluid responsiveness and life-saving procedures
  • Write a professional echocardiography report using standard terminology
  • Advanced techniques: tissue Doppler, speckle tracking, contrast echo and TEE

Course Content

Lecture 1: Basics of Echocardiography
Echo machine & probes · Standard views (parasternal, apical, subcostal, suprasternal) · Normal values · Normal anatomical variants

  • Echo machine & probes
  • Standard views (parasternal, apical, subcostal, suprasternal)
  • Normal values
  • Normal anatomical variants

Lecture 2: Rheumatic Heart Disease – Mitral Valve & Pathologies
Rheumatic mitral valve disease · Mitral valve prolapse · Mitral stenosis & regurgitation (MS & MR)

Lecture 3: Aortic Valve Disorders
Overview of aortic valve disease · Bicuspid aortic valve · Aortic regurgitation & stenosis (AR & AS)

Lecture 4: Ischemic Heart Disease
Echo findings in ischemia · Regional wall motion analysis · Post-MI complications (aneurysm, rupture, tamponade)

Lecture 5: Heart Failure
Diastolic heart failure (HFpEF) · Systolic heart failure (HFrEF)

Lecture 6: Pulmonary Vascular Disorders
Pulmonary hypertension · Cor pulmonale · Pulmonary embolism

Lecture 7: Congenital Heart Defects & Advanced Techniques
VSD, ASD, PDA · Cardiac masses