The 21st Century Echocardiography Laboratory in Australia and New Zealand: Rapid Evolution of Training and Workforce, Practice and Technology.
Advanced practice
Echocardiography
Registration
Sonographers
Training
Journal
Heart, lung & circulation
ISSN: 1444-2892
Titre abrégé: Heart Lung Circ
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 100963739
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2019
Sep 2019
Historique:
received:
24
10
2018
revised:
08
02
2019
accepted:
21
03
2019
pubmed:
24
4
2019
medline:
31
12
2019
entrez:
24
4
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Echocardiography is a common and increasingly used noninvasive imaging tool in medicine. In this paper, we imagine the echocardiography laboratory of the future and consider the challenges we face currently, and may face in the future, and how these might be overcome; challenges such as training enough sonographers to meet the increasing demands of the ageing population living with chronic cardiovascular disease and the need for surveillance in other clinical scenarios. We consider the changing qualification framework and the requirements for accreditation and registration in Australia and New Zealand and the potential for migrant sonographers to meet some of the increasing demand. Advanced scopes of practice are likely to be a feature of the future workforce and we consider some of the ways these may evolve. Lastly, we consider how the evolving clinical landscape and technology may change the way echocardiography is delivered.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31010637
pii: S1443-9506(19)30301-4
doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2019.03.010
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1421-1426Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V.