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Natasha
@nat_echo
Cardiac Physiologist; “just like a fancy photographer” Enthusiastic about TOE & 4D echo. Vivid fan girl. Views my own. She/Her
England, United Kingdom
Joined April 2009
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    @nat_echo
    Mar 29, 2022
    How to obtain right parasternal view This is the resulting image: aortic valve, proximal ascending aorta wrapping over the pulmonary artery. Perfect alignment for aortic valve velocities making it an ESSENTIAL view for proper AS assessment.
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    Jun 10, 2022
    Someone DM’d me to tell me they’ve reported my pinned tweet for being offensive. Babe, it’s a heart 🙄
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    Jun 13, 2022
    Today is 1st day that masks are no longer mandatory in clinical areas. I joined this trust during the pandemic so no1 has seen my face I apologise now - I suffer with resting bitch face. I always look furious. Even when I’m only mildly inconvenienced. It’s not you. Probably
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    Nov 1, 2022
    At what point do we think all NHS staff will quit and locum - in their original roles but for the twice the pay. You’d think we’d just pay substantive staff better and save the hassle wouldn’t you?!
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    Jan 18, 2023
    Doctors, nurses, porters, healthcare scientists, allied health professionals - anyone who works in a clinical environment: 🚨 Drinking water is not a luxury 🚨 Do not be dictated to that you cannot drink water whilst on shift.
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    Jun 11, 2022
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    Well didn’t expect this to be quite so popular! Im glad it’s made you all laugh!! And 👋🏼 to all my new followers - sorry to to disappoint you but I basically just post heart pictures. Not all of them are phallic 😘
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    Jan 2, 2022
    I sit in a dark room with a bare-chested stranger, covering them in lube and taking videos.
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    @nat_echo
    Jan 24, 2023
    Optimising your echo windows: Do you stop when you get something vaguely like what you think it should look like? Or do you try and find something better every time? I’m forever telling my trainees “have you tried a rib space lower?” In apical 4 chamber. Here’s why: 🧵
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    @nat_echo
    May 6, 2022
    Sometimes they do just look exactly like the textbook! What’s your diagnosis and what test do you want next? Female <30yrs history of collapse of unknown cause.
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    Oct 11, 2022
    Dear hospital Comms: instead of sending an email EVERY day saying we are at full capacity. How about you just tell us when we are not… We don’t read the email.
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    Mar 29, 2022
    Measuring TAPSE should be undertaken using an RV focused view. From A4C slide the face of the probe laterally away from the sternum in the same rob space. Your 4 chamber will now look like this:
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    @nat_echo
    Apr 16, 2020
    Plan: “Refer for ECHO” Echo is short for echocardiogram. So turn off caps lock for it is NOT an acronym. It just feels like you’re yelling at us. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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    @nat_echo
    Sep 8, 2020
    A trust I worked in the ward staff did their own ECGs. Ward called: “Hi, is that CardioRespiratory? Please could you come and do an ECG?” “We can. But you have your own machine, is it broken?” “No the Dr asked for a 12 lead ECG ... our machine only has 10 leads”
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    Mar 3, 2023
    Echo referral: URGENT there’s a moderate pericardial effusion on CT… The echo: 👀 🤷🏽‍♀️
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