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Echocardiography on the neonatal unit: a job for the neonatologist or the cardiologist?
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- Published on: 19 January 2012
- Published on: 19 January 2012Neonatologists as echo-technicians: a supervised model for echocardiography training in the NICU?Show More
Even though it has been more than a decade, since Dr Skinner and his team introduced echocardiography to the neonatologists, a formal training for the neonatologist to acquire this important skill is still shrouded in controversy. In the United States, echocardiography in the NICU is often performed by an echocardiography technician and the images remotely read by the cardiologist. A model for a more supervised echocardi...
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