Carly Sommers

Highly specialised cardiac physiologist in echocardiography 🫀 Blackpool teaching hospitals 🏥 Mum of two👭🏼

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

Excellent start to the christmas holidays 😀🎄

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

@echo_batman @NMerke How would you explain this kind of finding in a mitral valve prosthesis? Had one in a TOE this week

[Professionals in Cardiac Sciences Australia Inc @PiCSA_au]

🫀 NATIONAL CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGIST DAY 21st May 2025

Join us in celebrating the vital work of Cardiac Physiologists on the birthday of Willem Einthoven, the pioneer behind the first ECG. His invention in 1895 transformed cardiovascular diagnostics and earned him a Nobel Prize.

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

@ItsnotrightUK Echocardiographer would be a healthcare scientist, not allied health professional. This post is an 18 month programme during which the applicant would not progress to beyond the bottom of the pay grade of band 6

[✨Sonia Sparkles✨🖤 @Sonia_Sparkles]

The building blocks to quality improvement that form the roots of most projects.
While the tools and techniques on top of them may vary depending on the context, these foundational elements are essential to successful and sustainable improvement:

[American Society of Echocardiography @ASE360]

"Roses are red,
Not green like a gecko.
Let's spend the day
Looking at an echo." 🫀

#HappyValentinesDay #ASEHeart

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

@MCRImaging @MFTnhs @NHSEngland Looking forward to seeing how successful this is, hoping to implement a similar idea in our area

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

The number of experienced staff within the NHS is falling. 28% of staff have five years experience or less, and the figures for nurses and midwives with 10 years or more experience have dropped dramatically.

The increase in inexperienced staff results in a ‘rookie factor’ which reduces productivity and slows down efforts to reduce NHS waiting lists.

How do we resolve this? By addressing the elephant in the hospital room: retention of experienced staff.

Government workforce planning purely focuses on supply and training more new people to fill the leaky workforce bucket. What they need to do is plug the holes in the bucket and retain staff.

https://t.co/Wfv7KzUuIg

[BSEcho @BSEcho]

For the NHS 10 year plan consultation we proposed solutions to current issues, highlighting the need for progression pathways for experienced echocardiographers. We're following up with MPs, policy advisors, NHSE and the devolved nations. We’re encouraged by conversations to date

[American Society of Echocardiography @ASE360]

In honor of #Halloween, follow along our #SpookyEcho thread! 👻

This is an inverted image of a 3D en face view of the atrial surface of the mitral valve showing a partially dehisced posterior annuloplasty band ("monster's" upper lip and "fangs") & 2 paravalvular defects (eyes).

[Natasha @nat_echo]

Absolutely I would agree with this.

Not unique to echo of course, but if you don’t know what the test can tell you, the limitations or can’t interpret the images or results … then it may well be harmful!

[Ian Mcleod @GE_IanMc]

I made this one just for you @strain_rate 🤣🤣🤣
#Echofirst #Cardiotwitter #Medtwitter #MAPSE #function

[✨Sonia Sparkles✨🖤 @Sonia_Sparkles]

People with caring responsibilities can feel excluded & experience increased stress in the workplace

We are not robots. If you want your team to perform well, be flexible to their needs & support them to be the best they can

[Gilly 🖤 @Gillian275Gm]

Carol Hunt
Hannah Hunt
Louise Hunt
RIP
Say their names

I can not imagine John Hunts pain. I send every condolence for his senseless loss.

I know the killers name.

I had to scroll quite a while to see the names of the women murdered rather than their relationship to men.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Supporting tactical voting https://t.co/cWTNy7b445

Type in your postcode 👍🏼

But our FPTP system is archaic

We need some form of proportional representation and fast

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

@nat_echo Quick question - which value is the “LA pump strain”? 😆

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

@davidkurten Yes, many… what a ridiculous post

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Natasha @nat_echo]

Did you know:

The height of the colour box does not drop the frame rate, it’s the WIDTH that affects the frame rate.

I always teach people to lengthen colour box to look at the whole of the pulmonary artery not just the valve.

You never know when you may pick up a PDA!

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

@GE_IanMc 😂😂

[Carly Sommers @carlypom]

First day at our new CDC site at Whitegate Drive Health Centre 🫀