Talk:Echocardiography

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I'm against a merger of Echocardiology and Echocardiography:

  1. Echocardiography describes the art and science of excamining the heart by ultrasound. The article of echocardiology describes one of several professions who performs echocardiography.
  2. Echocardiology (shouldn't it be echocardiologist?) is a seldom used term. (Echocardiographic) sonographer or echo-tech (slightly condecending) is more common
  3. The article about echocardiology is valid only in the USA (and perhaps Canada?). An article about sonographers in diferent countries would be interesting though.

--Ekko 07:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

  1. I was examined six times this past week by echocardiographers (1 TEE and 5 TTE), while at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston. I have profound respect and admiration for those dedicated and skilled professionals. Thank you!

[edit] echocardiology

I practice non-invasive cardiology in the United States. I don't know a single MD who uses the term echocardiology in clinical practive. Is this a term used in other countries? Here we refer to it as echocardiography. Should we remove this title?

Done. "Echocardiology" is now a redirect to Cardiac sonographer.--Ekko 21:22, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

In the US, physicians from a number of specialties perform echocardiographic procedures. The generic term echocardiographer refers to a physician who performs and interprets echocardiographic examinations. A sonographer performs the examination, but does not have a medical degree.

I'm only familiar with the procedure being referred to as "stress echo" or just "echo" - but either way the overall discipline should be defined as echocardiography - due to the topographical nature/component of the 2D visual assessment process... however, an argument could be made for "echocardiology" because a complex understanding and study of data acquired is necessary for diagnosis. If the topic of discussion is to define the proper nomenclature I think echocardiography is proper.

[edit] stress echocardiogram

I was considering making a redirect of "stress echocardiogram" to this page, but I thought doing so might delay the creation of such a page which might very well be a whole page to itself & I am surprised that there isn't already. Nagelfar (talk) 05:56, 13 January 2008 (UTC)