In today’s rapidly changing medical environment, echocardiography has proven to be essential. The majority of pediatric cardiologists use echocardiography to some degree in their clinical practices. Over the years, pediatric echocardiography has proven to be an indispensible tool. Two-dimensional echocardiography, with M-mode and color-flow Doppler, had a great affect on pediatric cardiology since the 1980’s in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease (Noonan, 2004). Recently there have been several major advancements in the field of pediatric echocardiography that may prove to be essential to sonographers interested in imaging the pediatric heart and vascular system. It is now known that this specialty can be used for more
