Hello everybody: In everyday practice (criticalecho) I calculate stroke volume (or surrogate) with LVOT VTI (PW doppler). Practically in all patients it can be measure in A5C view. In some conditions LVOT VTI is really representative of stroke distance? For example: In aortic stenosis

Hi everybody. In TTE what window you use for LV eyeballing assessment of  global contractility? Some use apical 4C…others a sum of views… I prefer PSAX at midpapillary level…some authors says that because the predominant contraction pattern of LV is circumferential a