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Critical care echocardiography is commonly performed across Australia and New Zealand with many training and qualification pathways, but no standardisation of education goals exists.
This document establishes standardized minimum training requirements for basic and advanced critical care echocardiography in Australia and New Zealand.
Standardizes minimum training for critical care echocardiography in ANZ; extends prior expert consensus into formal regional guidelines.
Critical care echocardiography (CCE) is commonly performed in many intensive care units across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). The scope of practice ranges from Basic CCE through to Advanced CCE and includes the use of transthoracic echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography. Many training and qualification pathways exist with no standardisation of education goals. This document defines different levels of CCE expertise and recommends minimum training standards for each level of adult CCE in ANZ. Guidelines committee of College of Intensive Care Medicine's Ultrasound Special Interest Group held multiple face to face meetings, organised teleconferences, conducted a survey of the Fellows of the college and reviewed the international CCE training pathways prior to writing these guidelines.
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Nanjayya et al. (2019) studied Critical care echocardiography training. Minimum training standards for critical care echocardiography was evaluated. The College of Intensive Care Medicine Ultrasound Special Interest Group established guidelines defining levels of critical care echocardiography expertise and minimum training standards in ANZ.
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