Håvard Bjerkeseth Solvin1,2,5,*, Simone Goa Diab1,4, Ole Jakob Elle2,3, Henrik Holmstrøm1,4, Henrik Brun2,4,*
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.18, No.5, pp. 551-559, 2023, DOI:10.32604/chd.2023.031537
- 10 November 2023
Abstract Background: The management of suspected critical congenital heart defects (CCHD) relies on timely echocardiographic diagnosis. The availability of experienced echocardiographers is limited or even non-existent in many
hospitals with obstetric units. This study evaluates remote-mentored echocardiography performed by physicians
without experience in imaging of congenital heart defects (CHD). Methods: The setup included a pediatric cardiologist in a separate room, guiding a physician without experience in echocardiographic imaging of CHD in the
examination of a symptomatic newborn. This remote-mentoring pair was blinded to the diagnosis of the newborn
and presented with a simplified patient history. The echocardiographic… More >
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