TY - JOUR
T1 - Recommendations for Special Competency in Echocardiographic Guidance of Structural Heart Disease Interventions
T2 - From the American Society of Echocardiography
AU - Little, Stephen H.
AU - Rigolin, Vera H.
AU - Garcia-Sayan, Enrique
AU - Hahn, Rebecca T.
AU - Hung, Judy
AU - Mackensen, G. Burkhard
AU - Mankad, Sunil
AU - Quader, Nishath
AU - Saric, Muhamed
N1 - Funding Information:
This document was reviewed by members of the 2022-2023 ASE Guidelines and Standards Committee, ASE Board of Directors, ASE Executive Committee, and designated reviewers. Reviewers included Karima Addetia, MD, FASE, Jacqueline Danik, MD, DrPH, MD, FASE, Lanqi Hua, ACS, APCA, RDCS, MS, FASE, Noreen Kelly, MD, FASE, David Orsinelli, MD, FASE, Matthew Parker, MD. FASE, Alan S. Pearlman, MD, FASE, Andrew Pellett, PhD, RDCS, FASE, Anita Sadeghpour, MD, FASE, Brian Soriano, MD, FASE, Elif Seda Tierney, MD, FASE, Melissa Wasserman, RDCS, RCCS, FASE, David H. Wiener, MD, FASE, and Bo Xu, MD, FASE.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - Transcatheter therapies for structural heart disease continue to grow at a rapid pace, and echocardiography is the primary imaging modality used to support such procedures. Transesophageal echocardiographic guidance of structural heart disease procedures must be performed by highly skilled echocardiographers who can provide rapid, accurate, and high-quality image acquisition and interpretation in real time. Training standards are needed to ensure that interventional echocardiographers have the necessary expertise to perform this complex task. This document provides guidance on all critical aspects of training for cardiology and anesthesiology trainees and postgraduate echocardiographers who plan to specialize in interventional echocardiography. Core competencies common to all transcatheter therapies are reviewed in addition to competencies for each specific transcatheter procedure. A core principle is that the length of interventional echocardiography training or achieved procedure volumes are less important than the demonstration of procedure-specific competencies within the milestone domains of knowledge, skill, and communication.
AB - Transcatheter therapies for structural heart disease continue to grow at a rapid pace, and echocardiography is the primary imaging modality used to support such procedures. Transesophageal echocardiographic guidance of structural heart disease procedures must be performed by highly skilled echocardiographers who can provide rapid, accurate, and high-quality image acquisition and interpretation in real time. Training standards are needed to ensure that interventional echocardiographers have the necessary expertise to perform this complex task. This document provides guidance on all critical aspects of training for cardiology and anesthesiology trainees and postgraduate echocardiographers who plan to specialize in interventional echocardiography. Core competencies common to all transcatheter therapies are reviewed in addition to competencies for each specific transcatheter procedure. A core principle is that the length of interventional echocardiography training or achieved procedure volumes are less important than the demonstration of procedure-specific competencies within the milestone domains of knowledge, skill, and communication.
KW - Echocardiography training
KW - Interventional echocardiography
KW - Structural heart disease
KW - Echocardiography/methods
KW - Societies, Medical
KW - United States
KW - Humans
KW - Heart Diseases
KW - Echocardiography, Transesophageal/methods
KW - Cardiology
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U2 - 10.1016/j.echo.2023.01.014
DO - 10.1016/j.echo.2023.01.014
M3 - Article
C2 - 36841670
AN - SCOPUS:85149844168
SN - 0894-7317
VL - 36
SP - 350
EP - 365
JO - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
JF - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
IS - 4
ER -