TOE Simulator [iPhone]

The practical training of transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) is limited to mentoring by experienced physicians, while providing patient care in a supervised setting. This challenges the learning process, because training opportunities cannot be provided on demand, while trainees will always be under pressure because the time to learn is restricted by the discomfort of an awake patient. This application can help you learn to acquire the 28 standard TOE views defined by the America Society of Echocardiography, in your own time, using high-fidelity, simulated echocardiography images.

This app provides you with a user interface similar to a traditional TEE control module, so that you can become familiar, in a realistic way, to how the echo image is affected by the manipulation of the various controllers. The app can automatically recognise the 28 standard TEE views, and will notify you when they are displayed correctly. It also offers interactive guidance to help you find the right control settings for each of them. These features make this application a great tool to help improve your TEE skills, without time pressure, any time you want, and anywhere you can use your iPhone.

A major challenge in learning echocardiography is the complex spatial arrangement of cardiac structures, which makes the relation between echocardiographic imaging planes and cardiac anatomy difficult to understand. To address this challenge, this app provides optional real-time annotation of all cardiac chambers and large vessels, for any orientation chosen by the user. This way, clear anatomic references can be made available all the time, without losing focus on the 2-dimensional imaging plane.

Features:
• User interface similar to a traditional TEE control module
• Live labelling of cardiac chambers and great vessels
• Automatic recognition of 5 echocardiographic standard views
• Goto function: provides written instructions while guiding you to 5 ASE standard views, starting from any position of the probe

Premium features (in-app purchase):
• Automatic recognition of all 28 echocardiographic standard views as defined by the American Society of Echocardiography
• Assistance mode: indicates which settings have been set correctly and which ones need to be adjusted (and how) for any selected view
• Goto function: interactive written instructions for all 28 standard views

DISCLAIMERS

• This app does is NOT intended to provide any medical diagnoses or treatment advice whatsoever. Always seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions. 

• This app is NOT able to perform a real ultrasound examination on a real patient, nor is it able to transform your device into a real ultrasound machine.

• This app uses synthetic echo images based on an artificial human heart model, with live labelling to show what structures are displayed. The 'Live' function of this app makes the heart model move by means of digital animation technology. This function is intended for illustration purposes only, and does not reproduce a clinically realistic movement of the heart wall or any of the heart valves.

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