Explore how calculating and estimating pressures within the heart can help clarify a diagnosis. Through a series of cases, you’ll see how hemodynamic findings inform clinical reasoning and help identify what is happening with a patient.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand how to calculate pressures within the heart.
  2. Understand how estimating pressures can help you make a diagnosis.
  3. Demonstrate different cases showing how hemodynamics helped make the diagnosis.

Meet Our Presenter

Richard (Richie) Palma, BS, ACS, RCS, RDCS, FACVP, FSDMS, FASE, is the founder, director and clinical coordinator of Duke’s Cardiac Ultrasound Certificate Program and recipient of the 2021 Duke School of Medicine Cardiology Teaching Award. He is the only man to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award from both the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE). In spring 2022, he was appointed to the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) Board of Directors.

Richie has also served on the boards of directors for the SDMS, the SDMS Foundation (2021–2025) and the ASE. He is a dedicated contributor to the sonography profession as an educator, author, program developer and leading national and international speaker on physics and echocardiography. He is the author of the fifth edition of Echocardiographer’s Pocket Reference, a definitive reference for echocardiography sonographers and students since 1993, and is honored to succeed Sidney Edelman, Ph.D., an iconic Sonography Principles and Instrumentation (SPI) physics instructor, at ESP Ultrasound.

Richie is a national speaker for Philips and Lantheus Medical Imaging and a fellow of the SDMS, the ASE and the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals. He was among the first to earn Advanced Cardiac Sonographer (ACS) certification in the United States and has worked in sonography since 1990.

Registration

Registration for this seminar is sponsored by the Wisconsin Society of Ultrasound Professionals. Register today to save your spot.

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