del Mestre Lorenzo, Compassi Rossana, Badano Luigi P, Monti Maria Luisa, Ciani Rosanna, Buiese Simonetta, Gianfagna Pasquale, Fioretti Paolo M
Laboratorio di Ecocardiografia, Dipartimento di Scienze Cardiopolmonari, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Udine.
G Ital Cardiol (Rome). 2006 Dec;7(12):798-808.
Cardiac sonographers play a key role in the management of echo-laboratories in anglo-saxon countries. In Italy, and generally in "latin" countries nearly all echocardiographic studies are performed by cardiologists. However, because of the increasing demand for echocardiography, this practice will no longer be feasible (medical schools do not graduate enough cardiologists!), and cost-effective (the cost of echocardiography performed by cardiologists only is becoming too high!). Introduction of cardiac sonographers in Italian echo-laboratories may represent a feasible and cost-effective solution to the ever increasing demand for echocardiography. In order to contribute to the debate, we report the experience of our echo-laboratory that employs cardiac sonographers since 1984.
在盎格鲁-撒克逊国家，心脏超声检查技师在心脏超声实验室的管理中发挥着关键作用。在意大利，以及一般的“拉丁”国家，几乎所有的超声心动图检查都是由心脏病专家进行的。然而，由于对超声心动图检查的需求不断增加，这种做法将不再可行（医学院培养的心脏病专家数量不足！），且成本效益不高（仅由心脏病专家进行超声心动图检查的成本变得过高！）。在意大利的心脏超声实验室引入心脏超声检查技师可能是应对超声心动图检查需求不断增加的一种可行且具成本效益的解决方案。为推动这一讨论，我们报告了自1984年起就雇佣心脏超声检查技师的我们心脏超声实验室的经验。
