Diagnostic accuracy of a new shorter dobutamine infusion protocol in stress echocardiography: Figure 1

urrently, a transthoracic echocardiographic examination is routinely included in the assessment of the majority of patients with cardiac disease. Other examinations are also demanded every day from the echocardiography laboratory. Of these, stress echocardiography is particularly time consuming. Shortening the time of infusion of a drug would increase the feasibility and the cost effectiveness of stress echocardiography, 1 provided of course that the diagnostic accuracy achieved using the classic drug infusion protocol is maintained.