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Seeing the Heart Clearly: A Practical Guide to Echocardiography
Recorded for 2025 Fall Conference
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Activity Duration| Content Expires: | February 28, 2027 (11:55 p.m. CT)
CE for this activity will not be available after this date. |
This CE activity was recorded for the 2025 AANP Fall Conference.  | This activity includes closed captioning. |
| Delivery Note: The content for this activity was previously presented during the virtual 2025 AANP Fall Conference. If you already completed the content of this activity while attending the virtual conference, you should not complete this content a second time. Learners should only complete ONE delivery-method to earn credit. Completing multiple delivery options for the same activity is considered duplicate credit for the same content and will not be accepted by regulatory bodies. |
Overview
Echocardiography is one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in cardiology—but interpreting results and understanding its role among other cardiovascular diagnostics can be challenging for many nurse practitioners. This session offers a practical, case-based introduction to cardiovascular diagnostic testing with a focus on echocardiography. Participants will review key principles of test selection, gain a foundational understanding of echocardiogram modalities (TTE, TEE, stress echo), and learn to identify hallmark findings in common cardiovascular conditions. The session will also explore when to escalate care, collaborate with cardiology—including its subspecialties—and recognize limitations of testing. Designed for nurse practitioners who manage adult cardiovascular patients in inpatient or outpatient settings, this session emphasizes clinical relevance over technical detail. Attendees will leave with greater confidence in ordering, interpreting, and applying diagnostic testing to support timely, patient-centered decision-making.
Objectives
- Describe the appropriate use and limitations of transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress echocardiography.
- Recognize key echocardiographic findings associated with common cardiovascular conditions.
- Apply diagnostic test results to guide clinical decision-making, including when to escalate care or refer to cardiology and its subspecialties.
Speaker
Joshua D. Thornsberry, DNP, AGACNP-BC, ANP-BC, CCK, FACC
Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.
The speaker has the following disclosures: - Vice Chair, Certified Cardiovascular Knowledge Examination for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants (CCKE), American College of Cardiology
All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
DisclaimerIndividuals who have contributed to the CE Center (content originally from the 2025 AANP Fall Conference) were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.
CE Credit Instructions
- Read this activity description, including objectives and disclosures.
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