Canine Echocardiogram Report Cardiology Form

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about echocardiography and how to interpret and i'm going to cover when you should be doing an echocardiogram briefly and then i'm going to concentrate predominantly on how to interpret the images and then we'll go through three example reports so how to interpret the reports when did you do an echocardiogram well you know we might want to assess a heart murmur we might want to assess patients with suspected heart failure remember an anti-probium p is a very good rule out for heart failure you might want to do that first if a patient has an arrhythmia we almost certainly want to know that their heart is structurally normal or abnormal if patients have an acute coronary syndrome then we need an echo to know what their rv function is to tell them when they can start driving again if they don't have an echo they have to wait a month they've got better than moderately impaired so at ejection fraction over 40 percent they can drive again after a week so it's that would have a big impact on