Echo Technologist Skills Checklist

Answer Key

1. No Experience 2. Requires Supervision 3. Proficient 4. Can Teach Others

Age of Patients Cared For

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Newborn/Neonate (birth to 30 days)
Infant (1 month to 1 year)
Toddler (1 year to 3 years)
Preschooler (3 years to 5 years)
School Age Child (5 years to 12 years)
Adolescents (12 years to 18 years)
Young Adults (18 years to 39 years)
Middle Adults (39 years to 64 years)
Older Adults (64 years to 79 years)
Elderly Adults (over 79+ years)

Skills

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Venipuncture/IV Placement
Standard Precautions
Isolation Precautions
Pediatric Respiratory/ Cardiac Arrest
Adult Respiratory/ Cardiac Arrest
Crash Carts
Defibrillators
12 Lead EKG
Stress Testing
Holter Monitoring

Setting

Adult Echo

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Routine
3-D Echo
Pedoff Probe
Transesophageal Echo
Stress Echo
Pharmacological Stress Echo
Post-Cath Echo
Post-Surgical Echo
Imaging with Contrast Agents
Sterilization Procedures
2-Dimensional
M-Mode
PW Doppler
CW Doppler
Color Doppler
Parasternal Long Axis View
Right Ventricular Inflow Tract (RVIT)
Right Ventricular Outflow Tract (RVOT)
4-Chamber View
2-Chamber View
Diastolic Dysfunction Evaluation
Subcostal View

Special Views

Calculations

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Simpson’s Rule
Proximal Isovelocity Surface Area
Distology with TDI
LV Strain/LV Volume

Pediatric Echo

Pediatric Anomalies

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Aortic Arch Abnormalities/Vascular Ring
Arch Sidedness
Coarctation of the Aorta
Coronary Artery Anomalies
Double Outlet Ventricle
Hypoplastic Heart Syndrome
Pulmonary Venous Return Anomalies
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transposition of the Great Vessels
Tricuspid and Pulmonary Atresia
Truncus Arteriosus
Univentricular Heart Anomalies

Pediatric Post-Surgical Scans

EMR

PACS

Equipment

GE

Undertaking

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