Key result
Point-of-care echocardiography sees widespread use but lacks clinical efficacy data and credentialing guidelines.
Why the study?
Despite widespread use of point-of-care echocardiography across medical specialties, data describing its clinical efficacy remain scarce, and guidelines for credentialing and quality control are lacking.
While point-of-care echocardiography has expanding clinical applications, there remains a significant lack of data on its clinical efficacy and standardized guidelines for credentialing and quality control.
Point-of-care echocardiography warrants cautious adoption pending efficacy data; leaves open standardization of credentialing and quality control.
Echocardiography (Echo) has a myriad of clinical applications. Traditionally, it was performed and interpreted by cardiologist but the scope of its applications has lead physicians of other specialities to learn this useful skill. One of the newer and expanding scope of echocardiography is point-of-care (POC) echocardiography. In this review article, we aim to discuss the clinical applications of POC echo, common protocols and its limitations. Despite its widespread use, there is paucity of data describing its clinical efficacy and there is lack of guidelines regarding credentialing and quality control of POC echo.
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Vaishnav et al. (2019) conducted a review in Point-of-care echocardiography. Point-of-care echocardiography was evaluated. Point-of-care echocardiography has widespread clinical applications, but lacks data describing its clinical efficacy and guidelines regarding credentialing and quality control.
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