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re: Cardiology question for anybody knowledgeable

Posted on 2/16/19 at 10:06 am to
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 2/16/19 at 10:06 am to
PCP reviewed the echo. Will be reviewed by a cardiologist. I dont know what they saw that made them want to do an echo. She has had fatigue and shortness of breath, which we had been putting down to depression/anxiety. OTOH she walks at a fast pace for 60-90 minutes at a time several days a week and does other strenuous exercise.
Posted by jdaute2
lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 2/16/19 at 9:42 pm to
A PCP reviewing an echo is not really within their scope of practice unless they’ve trained in cardiac ultrasound. I do echo and vascular ultrasounds for a living and we get referrals for all sorts of crazy shite from PCPs like murmurs or mitral prolapse and the echo we do is essentially completely normal. Not saying there’s nothing wrong with your SO, and the symptoms she’s having definitely need to be addressed, maybe that’s why they referred you to a cardiologist. A PCP shouldn’t be reviewing cardiac ultrasounds and unless there was some extremely obvious abnormality, they wouldn’t really be able to interpret much of the scan. From my experience at least.
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