Modern echocardiography owes a salute to the Navy  Staten Island
Advance By Staten Island Advance Staten Island Advance on May
17, 2010 at 5:25 AM, updated May 17, 2010 at 5:27 AM  STATEN
ISLAND, N.Y. — Medicine has not been slow or shy about adapting
for its own use the innovations of other disciplines. The space
program for example, developed the home digital blood pressure
device, originally designed for astronauts. A recent adaption of
aviation’s checklist to improve the safety of surgical
procedures made the talk-shows and the bestseller list. This
week, I highlight the intellectual gifts from the Navy to the
practice of echocardiography.  In actual fact, nature pre-empted
the Navy by a few million years, as dolphins and bats have
always used sound for communication and detection. Man appeared
to get into the act around 1912 after the Titanic disaster, when
underwater echo-ranging equipment was patented in both England
and the United States. During World War I, under great secrecy,
the Antisubmarine Divi