About Us

Hi Everyone

I welcome you to CardioCalc

My name is Joseph Folorunsho. By way of introduction, I am an intensive care registrar in St George Hospital, in Sydney. For the past 2 years I have been learning echocardiography and I have decided to share my knowledge on this platform.

I have my first degree in medicine in 2006 in Nigeria from the University of Ilorin and I am currently undergoing training to become an ICU specialist. I have obtained four postgraduate qualifications in Critical Care Echo and these include Certificate in Critical Care Echocardiogram from the university of Melbourne in 2018, Diploma In Critical Care Echocardiography from the University of Melbourne in 2018, Certificate of Clinician Performed Ultrasound, CCPU from The Australasian society for Ultrasound in Medicine in 2018, Master in Critical Care Echocardiography from the university of Melbourne in 2019,.

I thereafter proceeded to a second master in Cardiac Sonography with the University of South Australia in order to get a formal registration as a cardiac sonographer from the Australian Sonographer Accreditation Registry as a cardiac Sonographer. This is still ongoing and has been very useful.

I welcome you all to this educational platform. I have divided the different phases of learning echo into 10 sections starting from physics, basic principles of Ultrasound, types and care of probes, image acquisition, image optimisation, interpretation and reporting. It is an ongoing journey that needed maturity at each stage before the progression to the next stage and I will be posting online videos and my jottings as we go in order to help you achieve this.

This website could be used by anyone who has an interest in echo ranging from medical students, RMOs, HMOs, Registrars, Senior Registrars to Physicians as they will be able to log in to have private use of both the CardioCalc and EchoRep functions that I will talk about soon.

Basically, I have apps on this website..

  • Echo Basic: This is where you can find the physics, basic principles of use of Ultrasound, the normal reference values, echo references, the various measurements and chamber quantification.
  • Echo Tube: This consists of sunbytes lectures from Dr Adam Perora using Sonosite Machines.
  • EchoCourses: This sections has some of the courses in Australia that you can do to equip yourself in this sweet adventure and I particularly found the Australian Institute of Ultrasound in Broadbeach waters Queensland very helpful.
  • EchoGlimpse: Will show you my own personal protocols or diagrams explaining my approach to acquiring windows and my approach to reporting.
  • EchoWeb: Is designed and based on the GE website to show you the new advances and the knobology in handling the machines. It has all the new machines available and the one I used is the Vivid 1q which is the portable one. This is mainly going to show images, protocols and how to use the various machines available. The new inventions like Auto Ejection Fraction, Auto Tissue and Tissue Tracking.
  • EchoLinks: These are the links to the various educational websites that you might like to acquaint yourself with.
  • CardioCalc: The CardioCalc is the main app that was developed and based on the EchoCalc phone app and it tells you where your measurements fall within the different reference ranges. It is good to know the normal reference range to ease your speed of reporting. The units and normal references will pop out once you enter your figure and this is quite handy.
  • EchoRep: This is where you will need to login and do your own personal reporting and then you will be able to generate a PDF copy. You can design your own format with your name at the top and print it out and put in the patient case file. So wherever you are you should be able to do a formal report and print it out rather than a handwritten report most of us do and sometimes can be difficult to read. This also gives you the opportunity to practice formal reporting and standardise your practice.
  • EchoTour: This contains my own personal video clips which will be made available on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook as well.
  • EchoBoard: Consists of the American board exams you could do for those of us who want to become an expert in this field and get one of the highest levels of qualifications in Echocardiography and become a fellow of the American society of echocardiography (FASE). You will need to be an active member and these qualifications are highly respected in this field worldwide. Other exams include the ASCeXAM, and ReASCE. The newest one is the examination of special competence in critical care Echocardiography-CCEeXAM, which happens to be my favourite

Once again welcome and I wish you all the best.

Feel free to use the contact form in case if you have any question or suggestions.

Thank you.
Dr Joseph FOLORUNSHO
Accredited CCPU provider.

Hi Everyone

I welcome you to CardioCalc

My name is Joseph Folorunsho. By way of introduction, I am an intensive care registrar in St George Hospital, in Sydney. For the past 2 years I have been learning echocardiography and I have decided to share my knowledge on this platform.

I have my first degree in medicine in 2006 in Nigeria from the University of Ilorin and I am currently undergoing training to become an ICU specialist. I have obtained four postgraduate qualifications in Critical Care Echo and these include Certificate in Critical Care Echocardiogram from the university of Melbourne in 2018, Diploma In Critical Care Echocardiography from the University of Melbourne in 2018, Certificate of Clinician Performed Ultrasound, CCPU from The Australasian society for Ultrasound in Medicine in 2018, Master in Critical Care Echocardiography from the university of Melbourne in 2019,.

I thereafter proceeded to a second master in Cardiac Sonography with the University of South Australia in order to get a formal registration as a cardiac sonographer from the Australian Sonographer Accreditation Registry as a cardiac Sonographer. This is still ongoing and has been very useful.

I welcome you all to this educational platform. I have divided the different phases of learning echo into 10 sections starting from physics, basic principles of Ultrasound, types and care of probes, image acquisition, image optimisation, interpretation and reporting. It is an ongoing journey that needed maturity at each stage before the progression to the next stage and I will be posting online videos and my jottings as we go in order to help you achieve this.

This website could be used by anyone who has an interest in echo ranging from medical students, RMOs, HMOs, Registrars, Senior Registrars to Physicians as they will be able to log in to have private use of both the CardioCalc and EchoRep functions that I will talk about soon.

Basically, I have apps on this website.

  • Echo Basic: This is where you can find the physics, basic principles of use of Ultrasound, the normal reference values, echo references, the various measurements and chamber quantification.
  • Echo Tube: This consists of sunbytes lectures from Dr Adam Perora using Sonosite Machines.
  • EchoCourses: This sections has some of the courses in Australia that you can do to equip yourself in this sweet adventure and I particularly found the Australian Institute of Ultrasound in Broadbeach waters Queensland very helpful.
  • EchoGlimpse: Will show you my own personal protocols or diagrams explaining my approach to acquiring windows and my approach to reporting.
  • EchoWeb: Is designed and based on the GE website to show you the new advances and the knobology in handling the machines. It has all the new machines available and the one I used is the Vivid 1q which is the portable one. This is mainly going to show images, protocols and how to use the various machines available. The new inventions like Auto Ejection Fraction, Auto Tissue and Tissue Tracking.
  • EchoLinks: These are the links to the various educational websites that you might like to acquaint yourself with.
  • CardioCalc: The CardioCalc is the main app that was developed and based on the EchoCalc phone app and it tells you where your measurements fall within the different reference ranges. It is good to know the normal reference range to ease your speed of reporting. The units and normal references will pop out once you enter your figure and this is quite handy.
  • EchoRep: This is where you will need to login and do your own personal reporting and then you will be able to generate a PDF copy. You can design your own format with your name at the top and print it out and put in the patient case file. So wherever you are you should be able to do a formal report and print it out rather than a handwritten report most of us do and sometimes can be difficult to read. This also gives you the opportunity to practice formal reporting and standardise your practice.
  • EchoTour: This contains my own personal video clips which will be made available on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook as well.
  • EchoBoard: Consists of the American board exams you could do for those of us who want to become an expert in this field and get one of the highest levels of qualifications in Echocardiography and become a fellow of the American society of echocardiography (FASE). You will need to be an active member and these qualifications are highly respected in this field worldwide. Other exams include the ASCeXAM, and ReASCE. The newest one is the examination of special competence in critical care Echocardiography-CCEeXAM, which happens to be my favourite

Once again welcome and I wish you all the best.

Feel free to use the contact form in case if you have any question or suggestions.

Thank you.
Dr Joseph FOLORUNSHO
Accredited CCPU provider.