Gulfcoast Ultrasound Introduction to Adult Echocardiography 2025 – Videos + Interactive Quiz

Gulfcoast’s Introduction to Adult Echocardiography builds from ultrasound fundamentals and cardiac anatomy to a complete adult echo examination. The 2025 curriculum covers standard imaging windows, measurements, Doppler techniques and the assessment of valve disease, ventricular function, cardiomyopathies, coronary disease and pericardial disorders. It includes 20 core modules and a bonus scanning demonstration, with the original topic order retained below. Designed for clinicians and sonographers developing or reviewing cardiac ultrasound skills, the course combines instructional videos with the quiz component named in this listing. The original publisher release date was September 18, 2025.

Package scope: The listing describes videos and an interactive quiz. The publisher’s full interactive platform, 12-month access period and exact module inventory are not established by these files; quiz availability and functionality must be confirmed in the supplied product. Publisher accounts and official hands-on training are not included.

Official Educational Objectives

Upon completing the original educational activity, learners should be better able to:

1. Increase their knowledge and confidence in performing or interpreting adult echocardiography examinations.
2. Describe appropriate transducer manipulation and ultrasound system optimization for obtaining diagnostic cardiac images.
3. Recognize potential imaging errors and technical limitations.
4. Describe routine adult echocardiography protocols using 2D, M-mode, color flow, and Doppler imaging.
5. Identify standard echocardiographic measurements and normal reference values.
6. Recognize normal and abnormal features of cardiac anatomy.
7. Explain the role of Doppler echocardiography and relevant qualitative and quantitative measurements.
8. Identify echocardiographic findings associated with valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies, coronary artery disease, prosthetic valves, and pericardial disease.
9. Understand advanced approaches to assessing right and left ventricular wall motion.
10. Apply standardized reporting principles to echocardiography worksheets and clinical reports.
11. Review ultrasound system optimization when using image-enhancing agents.
12. Integrate echocardiographic techniques and interpretation criteria into appropriate clinical practice.

Course Topics

The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Adult Echocardiography 2025 course includes:

1. Ultrasound Imaging Fundamentals: The Basics
2. Anatomy of the Heart and the EKG
3. The 2D Evaluation of Cardiac Anatomy: The Parasternal Window
4. The 2D Evaluation of Cardiac Anatomy: Apical, Subcostal & Suprasternal Notch Windows
5. Scan Demonstration: 2D Views
6. 2D Measurements and Normal Values
7. Doppler Fundamentals
8. Introduction to Cardiac Doppler
9. Comprehensive 2D Exam
10. Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Mitral Valve
11. Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Aortic Valve
12. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease
13. Image Enhancing Agents in Echocardiography
14. Doppler Evaluation of Mitral Valve Disease
15. Doppler Evaluation of Aortic Valve Disease
16. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Right Heart Disease
17. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Cardiomyopathies
18. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Prosthetic Valves
19. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Diastolic Function
20. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Pericardial Disease
21. BONUS: Complete Echo Scanning Demonstration

Official Course Faculty

The Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute lists the following instructional faculty for the online program:

Christie Hill Jordan, BS, ACS, RDCS, RCS, RCIS, FASE

Cardiovascular Technology Program Director, Florida State College at Jacksonville.

Daniel Bourque, MS, ACS, RCS, FASE

Echosonographer, Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Lori Green, BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT

President and Program Director, Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute.

Steven Walling, BS, RCS, ACS, RDCS, FASE

Director and Clinical Coordinator, Hoffman Heart School of Cardiovascular Technology.