- Often most difficult view to obtain well
- Probe just beneath nipple
- Angle up into chest
- Indicator to patient right
- Patient in left lateral decubitus may help
- Septum should be vertical
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Apical long axis or five chamber
- Rotate slightly clockwise to bring in aortic root
- Long axis: aortic root seen but not right atrium
- “Five chamber” aortic root and right atrium
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Apical long axis or five chamber
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