Important Views in a Normal Colour Doppler Echocardiogram

Transthoracic echocardiography is done from the chest wall in regions where there is no significant overlap of the heart by the lungs. Air in the lungs reflect ultrasound so that heart covered by the lungs as in emphysema, cannot be imaged well. Sometimes in postoperative patients when the chest wall is covered with dressing, assessment of inferior vena cava for volume status can be done from the infra axillary region, through the liver. A few video clips of normal colour Doppler Echocardiograms from multiple views are being illustrated.