Key result
Ethics in echocardiography involves balancing patient preferences, quality of life, medical indications, and contextual features to ensure appropriate use and quality of care.
Why the study?
Echocardiography is an invaluable, portable, and cost-effective diagnostic tool with broadening applications, prompting the need to delineate its ethical constraints, practices, and challenges in clinical setups.
This review outlines the ethical constraints, practices, and challenges associated with the clinical use of echocardiography.
Supports ethical balancing in echocardiography decisions; leaves open guideline development from higher-level evidence.
Increasingly sophisticated types of equipment are needed for the evaluation of cardiac function and structure. An invaluable diagnostic tool with broadening applications, which is also portable and cost-effective in medical and surgical practice is echocardiography. The purpose of this review is to derive the ethical constraints, ethical practices and challenges in the field of echocardiography, when practicing echocardiography in a clinical setup.
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Ramanujam et al. (2021) conducted a review in Echocardiography. Ethics in echocardiography involves balancing patient preferences, quality of life, medical indications, and contextual features to ensure appropriate use and quality of care.
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