hi I'm Virginia Robinson I'm a full-service family doctor in Fernie BC and we're going to take a look at the heart from The subxiphoid View I'm using my curvilinear probe today although I could use the faced array and I have the marker pointed towards the patient's right using the xiphoid process as my external landmark I'm going to look through the liver to get a sub xiphoid view of the heart here you can see the right ventricle the inferior pericardium the left ventricle and both Atria I can use this view in trauma to look for a pericardial effusion but I can also use it to look for left ventricular contractility and any signs of pulmonary embolism where you would see the septum bowing into the left ventricle here I'm doing an anterior sweep and then I'm sweeping posteriorly through the heart this concludes the subsiphoid view of the heart foreign
