Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography (TNE) SIG

Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography (TNE) (SIG)

The goal of the Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography Specialty Interest Group (TNE) is to:

• Cultivate innovation and scientific discovery
• Foster clinical and academic co-operation
• Reshape practice and training guidelines for the management of cardiovascular problems in newborns and young infants.

Implementation of Hemodynamics programs across North America has resulted from strong collaboration between neonatologists with formal training in TnECHO and Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory leaders. These programs have helped promote standardized imaging guidelines and clinical pathways, create hemodynamic fellowship-training programs, and cultivate hemodynamics research.

The TNE’s founding members have played a pivotal role in developing normative echocardiography datasets across gestations, enhanced mechanistic insight into common neonatal cardiovascular problems (e.g., patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonary hypertension) through echocardiography-guided research, and validated the reliability of common echocardiography techniques in newborns. The ASE TNE will help anchor these efforts within a well-established society of cardiovascular imagers, and support both the mission and strategic goals of ASE through enhanced membership and professional diversity.

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