Carly Sommers

Excellent start to the christmas holidays 😀🎄

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

Today in cathlab TOE, CWD in MS. Double envelope signal. What do you think about the faint “MS” signal? Fact or fiction?

🫀 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.

@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

Fully qualified doctor £42k vs upto £53k for a trainee allied health professional

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:

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

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

We ran our inaugural Rapid Assessment Valve Assessment clinic today @MFTnhs, fast tracking newly diagnosed severe valve disease patients. A UK first and possible by funding from @NHSEngland, improving outcomes for the cardiac patients of Greater Manchester

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. bmj.com/content/387/bm…

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

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).

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!

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

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

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.

Supporting tactical voting stopthetories.vote Type in your postcode 👍🏼 But our FPTP system is archaic We need some form of proportional representation and fast

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

And if like me you’ve never actually called it the “index beat method” It’s a much more scientific way of saying - choose the beat that looks roughly similar to one before 👌🏽

@davidkurten Yes, many… what a ridiculous post

Why are there now public defibrillators everywhere in the UK? Does anyone know of a single person that has been publicly defibrillated?

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

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!

@GE_IanMc 😂😂

@carlypom Looks great!! For a moment I thought you had some kind of super-wide HD monitor for reporting. It was the window 🤣🤣

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