A physiologist observing and reporting supra-pharmacologic dobutamine stress testing: can we trust them, and can we trust the results?

Echo Research and Practice

Thomas R Porter¹ 

[1] University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA;

关键词: coronary artery disease (CAD);    stress echocardiography;    dobutamine;    cardiac physiologist;    safety;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1530/ERP-18-0048

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In a study, published in this issue of Echo Research and Practice, Ntoskas et al. retrospectively analyzed the safety of a cardiac physiologist performing, and interpreting, Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) in of 300 patients undergoing DSE for the detection of inducible reversible ischemia, myocardial viability and valvular heart disease. While safety during the tests themselves did not appear to be compromised with this unsupervised approach, the interpretation of these DSEs causes concerns regarding broad patient safety relative to misread results.

【 授权许可】

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