Georg Wedekind

Cardiologist
Imaging specialist
EACVI certified
DEGUM Level II

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@NMerke Exactly! Especially in 3D VCA: gain settings can create any VCA you want. My approach: first reconstruct the normal 2D planes from the 3D dataset. Then compare the reconstructed colour doppler image with the normal 2D doppler images. If they look exactly (!) the same, go to VCA.

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@NMerke @EACVIPresident @escardio Top topic. Funny just talked about it to my fellows. And it's also crucial to not to hide these, and other numbers on the machine. Turn the all numbers "on" in the machine settings, that they are presented beside your image. Again, a crucial topic Nicolas :-)

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@alex1708ander Or how Leonardi Da Vinci said: „Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.“

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@NMerke Who the fu... is Paraguay :-( . ;-) (But as a gentleman and sportsman: good luck during the following Games).

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@alex1708ander That's what I'm telling my fellows all day long. Don't learn angles, learn anatomy and build up your exam by going from anatomical structure to anatomical structure. This way you don't get lost and can handle uncommon situations.

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@Hragy First take care of you and your health ... then Cath lab ;-) . Well but I think we all would do it the same way... Get well soon.

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@NMerke If I get it right, it doesn't matter that some of the TR volume won't pass the right heart due to LR Shunt. Because in the next heart beat it will equal it out. Over time all volume has to pass the right heart or it will explode or implode... Or didn't I get the point?

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@alex1708ander Another example from Halloween Echo ;-) ? The one on the opposite side of the LAS. Thus 💙.

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@NMerke I had quite a few patients last year who were "asymptomatic" but had volumetric severe MR. They adapted to the situation. So first, what is symptomatic? Studies with specific stress protocols which are correlated to outcome might be helpful. But I'm afraid a wishful thinking?

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

The history of echocardiography began during Carl Hellmuth Hertz’s honeymoon in Erlangen and then embarked on an exciting journey in which we participate today.

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

Where we came from at #echofirst (it took a while to get a copy)

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And where we are today ...

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@iamritu @bwoody58 @argulian @echo_batman @VerwerftJan 👍 A sign of impaired relaxation. This is also an example why ECG recording is mandatory during echocardiography. You can't distinguish a L wave from an A wave in pseudoregular atrial fibrillation...

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@NMerke The top meeting each year. I hope to manage attending online

[Nicolas Merke @NMerke]

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[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

I've just discovered that Zotero released a mobile app. Well that will boost science and help me a LOT. 🙏 to the developer of #zotero for creating an open source, free, multi platform citing software.

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

I only can re-recommend it, a must read and must have in your #echofirst lab:
DOI: 10.3390/jcdd13020070
Definitely saved my day :-)

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@echo_batman Wow. Perfect. There is a strong need discussing the basics of ultrasound. I really appreciate this kind of work. Thank you VERY much :-).

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@alex1708ander It absorbs everything: blood, ultrasound waves,... that's why it appears black on the screen ;-)

[Georg Wedekind @GeorgWedekind]

@alex1708ander @DHZB_Akademie Perfect location, great topic, top teachers. Can't be better 👍