Why the study?
Current emergency physician training guidelines for limited sonography are considered inadequate compared to the requirements for independent competence in echocardiography.
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Comparison
Current emergency physician limited sonography training vs ASE Level 2 echocardiography training
Design
Editorial position statement by ASE and ACC
Six-month Level 2 training requirement may limit emergency physician adoption of echocardiography; challenges integration of focused cardiac ultrasound into routine ED care.
Earlier in the year, the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JSE) published a position statement regarding the performance of echocardiography in the emergency department.This was the product of a joint effort between the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC). 1 The background provided for the policy statement indicated that independent competence in echocardiography (Level 2 training) requires a minimum of six months of echocardiography education and 300 studies with a wide variety of abnormalities.This was contrasted to the current guidelines for training of emergency physicians in limited sonography that were proposed by Mateer et al. in 1994, which recommend a total of 150 ultrasound examinations, 25-50 of which should be cardiac studies.This was believed to be ''far from adequate.'' 1 The policy statement, extracted verbatim from the position paper, is as follows:
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Stahmer et al. (2000) reported an editorial. The ASE and ACC position statement asserts that independent competence in echocardiography requires at least six months of education and 300 studies, contrasting with limited sonography guidelines.
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