It's All About the Foot Pedal: One Small Step for the Obstetric Sonographer, One Big Step for the Prenatal Detection of Congenital Heart Disease

Guidance for fetal cardiac imaging in patients with degraded acoustic windows

“…In many cases of maternal obesity, image quality may be improved by placement of the probe either within the umbilicus or below the panniculus. Judicious use of two‐handed scanning, particularly in the case of DAW, may improve visualization of the fetal heart by facilitating steady and precise transducer orientation/pressure 11 .…”