10/03/2020
A study of first-year medical students trained only for 18 hours in ultrasound imaging demonstrated they were able to detect pathology in 75% of patients with known cardiac disease, while board-certified cardiologists using stethoscopes could do so only in 49%. The diagnostic specificity of the students (85%) was also greater than the cardiologists (75%). Click our Instagram bio link https://ja.ma/2VUpeo9 for a complete review of the use of handheld ultrasound (insonation) in the cardiac physical exam.
