Ultrasound Heart Screening (Fetal Echo)

Our online information for health professionals aims to improve the prenatal detection of congenital heart disease (CHD) using obstetric ultrasound at the routine "20 week" fetal anomaly scan.

This is for anyone scanning the fetal heart, including perinatal cardiologists, fetal medicine specialists, obstetricians, ultrasonographers, radiologists, midwives and echo technicians. 

Our online information includes: 

Training
  -  5 Transverse View protocol - for training and screening
  -  Training FAQs - Frequently asked questions
      - News & Articles

Training Materials
  -  Fetal Echo CDs - training CDs (Version 1 can be downloaded for free)
  -  Fetal Heart 2D sketch - a 2D diagram of a heart before birth
  -  Fetal Heart conditions - types of CHD with names and abbreviations

Healthcare Publications
  - Healthcare Publications - including our Integrated Care Pathway
  - Detection & Diagnosis - advanced detection and diagnosis article (republished with permission)

External Links:

CCAD: Central Cardiac Audit Database Paediatric Congenital Heart Disease statistics (see "Antenatal Diagnosis" for percentage of infants requiring treatment for CHD in the first year of life who were diagnosed antenatally).

FASP: The Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme's online resource to support the '18+0 to 20+6 weeks fetal anomaly scan - National standards and guidance for England 2010'. Plus details of the 11 key conditions

NICE: Antenatal guidelines (updated 2008)

ASW: Antenatal Screening Wales: screening standards