A physiologist observing and reporting supra-pharmacologic dobutamine stress testing: Can we trust them, and can we trust the results?

Thomas R. Porter

doi:10.1530/ERP-18-0048

A physiologist observing and reporting supra-pharmacologic dobutamine stress testing: Can we trust them, and can we trust the results?

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Abstract

In a study, published in this issue of Echo Research and Practice, Ntoskas et al. retrospectively analyzed the safety of a cardiac physiologist performing, and interpreting, Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) in of 300 patients undergoing DSE for the detection of inducible reversible ischemia, myocardial viability and valvular heart disease. While safety during the tests themselves did not appear to be compromised with this unsupervised approach, the interpretation of these DSEs causes concerns regarding broad patient safety relative to misread results.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	E7-E8
Journal	Echo Research and Practice
Volume	5
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1530/ERP-18-0048
State	Published - Sep 1 2018

Keywords

Cardiac physiologist
Coronary artery disease (CAD)
Dobutamine
Safety
Stress echocardiography

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Advanced and Specialized Nursing

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