The conventional treatment strategy for patients with atrial fibrillation who are to undergo electrical cardioversion is to prescribe warfarin for anticoagulation for three weeks before cardioversion.

A new clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that intracardiac echocardiography ...

American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography. This update of the 1997 guidelines was prompted by advances in the technology of echocardiography, ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) has published a comprehensive roadmap that details the use ...

A critique should be done with sensitivity, serving the higher purposes of improvement in performance and delivery of a better product. Performance of echocardiography and the translation and ...

A stress echocardiography, also called an echocardiography stress test or stress echo, is a procedure that determines how well your heart and blood vessels are working. During a stress ...

Develop an expertise in examining the heart using ultrasound technology as you gain the skills necessary to excel in this exciting health care field. Echocardiography focuses on the evaluation of the ...

Echocardiography is a frequently used tool in the evaluation of a wide range of cardiac diseases. It's used by internists in the evaluation of dyspnea on exertion, by anesthesiologists concerned about ...