Below is a link that might be benificial to us all. Please take time to respond to this link. Subject: Help ASE Stop Further Echo Payment Reductions  Help...
A new probe from Philips will cost between 42-47K, a 3-D is closer to 75K. If purchased with a machine it brings the cost down dramatically, closer to 20K. ...
Have you checked with Bill Phillips from Sonora Medical? He is often answering on this site, but if not you should try to connect with him directlyon this...
Dear colleagues, Please join us for the Echo Singapore meeting October 14-16, 2009. The meeting will focus on imaging in heart failure and 3D echocardiography....
Does anyone know if it is legal for an echo technologist to inject Definity? In the past, only RN's were allowed to inject. The administration in my hospital...
Do you do 3-D Echoes in your center? We want to be train in scanning and reading 3-D's but we do not know who's qualified. Can you please help us find someone...
Hello everyone, I work in a private cardiologist office where we perform everything from nuclear stress tests to to simple bubble studies. But we are expected...
In general sonographers are allowed to inject Definity. However, it is a decision made by each hospital. The ASE has published contrast documents that...
I would say that we are still too early in the learning curve to be teachers for others. You might inquire with Dr. Roberto Lang's Lab at the University of...
Does anyone out there know what hosptials are charging for 3D echo ? Jane Jane Vetter Echo Lab Supervisor, ext. 5099 NOTICE…This electronic transmission is...
Vetter, Jane
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Jul 14, 2009 6:51 pm
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T spray is widely used to clean transducers in our area. Upon reading the label on the bottle I see it says to let it sit for 10 minutes. In a busy lab, this...
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Jul 14, 2009 10:09 pm
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Sonographers at our facility do the injections. Candy Hogan, RDCS Cardiology, Echocardiography and EEG Manager 6001 Norris Canyon Rd. San Ramon, CA 94583 ...
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Hello, I work for a pediatric cardiology group that has been using Z-scores for a couple years now. We have some z-score data from Wessex, Boston, and Detroit....
Hi Jason I work in a paediatric lab and use the http://parameterz.blogspot.com/2008/11/ascending-aorta-z-scores.html site that you mentioned. The web-site...
Kerrie Richardson
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I am ARDMS certified in adult echocardiography. I also have a portable U/S machine. I live in Toronto (Canada) and can teach echo to anybody living in Toronto....
Hello everyone, I realize it's to early to tell how President Obama's health care reform will effect Ultrasound testing. But I would be interested in hearing...
I think the government wants to push all imaging/diagnostic services back to the hospitals. That's why Medicare is cutting reimbursements to the OP office...
I had a sonographer ask me how much he should charge per study. I have been in office the last 10 years, any idea on a reasonable charge, small hospital in...
I suppose Doctors will get paid less because of socialized health care. Why will anyone want to become a doctor? Well, yes there's the humanitarian reason to...
Dear group I would like to know you opinion about this image female of 63 years old with fever of 2 weeks ago, hemodynamic stable diagnosis of vasculitis...
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This is of course an inherently political subject. My trust is that we can all discuss this as fellow mortals sympathetic to mortal suffering; because the...
I am in the panhandle of Florida and I think that the going rate for an adult echo is around $50 a study. I am not sure that if that is just here, though,...
<SIGH>? It's not just the money vs. the desire to help people, it's the fact that physicians will still have to take on the responsibility and the liability...
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In my opinion the mass seems too large for a vegetation afterr two weeks only of fever. Maybe is a tumor. I've seen something simila, but on the ventricular...
Appears to be on a stalk like a papilloma (fibroelastoma). I have not seen one this large but it appears gelatinous and looks like it has fonds on it's...
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