RV function trainer: learn to assess the right ventricle on echo

A free simulator of right ventricular echocardiography. Every case shows an RV-focused apical 4-chamber, a standard apical 4-chamber, a short-axis and a parasternal long-axis view of a beating heart. Because the heart is simulated, TAPSE, fractional area change, RV diameters and wall thickness are known exactly.

What you can practise

• Visual RV assessment: is the RV dilated or hypertrophied?
• Overall, radial and longitudinal RV systolic function
• Septal flattening in systole and diastole: pressure versus volume overload
• McConnell's sign in acute pulmonary embolism, RV infarction, and RV hypertrabeculation (non-compaction)

Guides

• How to assess RV function on echo: TAPSE, FAC, S′ and strain
• RV size on echo: basal diameter, RV:LV ratio and wall thickness
• Septal flattening: pressure and volume overload, McConnell's sign

Also: visual EF and wall motion training and stress echo training.

Educational simulation — not for clinical use. Built by Diogo Martins.