Medical Information for Health Professionals

1. Fetal Heart Scan (Fetal Echo)

Tiny Tickers' information is concerned with improving the prenatal detection of congenital heart disease (CoHD) using obstetric ultrasound at the routine "20 week" fetal anomaly scan.  For anyone scanning the fetal heart, including perinatal cardiologists, fetal medicine specialists, obstetricians, ultrasonographers, radiologists, midwives and echo technicians. 

Our online information includes: 5 Transverse View Protocol, Fetal Heart Sketch, Prenatal heart disease, Diagnosis, Training FAQs, news & articles plus Fetal Echo CDs (available to download).

External Resources:

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

FASP: The Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP) has created an online resource to support the '18+0 to 20+6 weeks fetal anomaly scan - National standards and guidance for England 2010' - click here to open

ASW: Antenatal Screening Wales: screening standards.

2. Fetal Cardiology

A selection of links to conferences, web-sites, organisations and journals on the web in Fetal Cardiology (i.e. Pediatric Cardiology, Fetal Medicine and Obstetric Ultrasound).

This may be of particular interest to doctors & scientists working in this area.

Fetal Cardiology links

• Conferences (a selection)
• Online resources (new) - incl. Fetal Heart Model, Scientific literature searches
  
• Organisations & Societies
• Journals
• Useful, non-medical links (UK)

Note: this is just a small selection, featuring UK, European & some International sites and is not intended to be comprehensive.