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The British Society of Echocardiography has introduced a stress echocardiography accreditation scheme requiring a 200-case logbook to ensure operator competence in contemporary practice.
The introduction of the BSE stress echocardiography accreditation scheme aims to standardize training and ensure operator competence in modern clinical practice.
Stress echocardiography is a widely utilised test in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies. Its advantages include the ubiquitous availability of echocardiography, lack of ionising radiation, choice of physiological or pharmacological stressors, good diagnostic accuracy and robust supporting evidence base. SE has evolved significantly as a technique over the past three decades and has benefitted considerably from improvements in overall image quality (superior resolution), machine technology (e.g. digital cine-loop acquisition and side-by-side image display) and development of second-generation ultrasound contrast agents that have improved reader confidence and diagnostic accuracy. The purpose of this article is to review the breadth of SE in contemporary clinical cardiology and discuss the recently launched British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) Stress Echocardiography accreditation scheme.
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Shah et al. (2018) conducted an editorial in Coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, and cardiomyopathies. Stress echocardiography accreditation was evaluated. The British Society of Echocardiography has introduced a stress echocardiography accreditation scheme requiring a 200-case logbook to ensure operator competence in contemporary practice.
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