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NON-INVASIVE SERVICES
Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital – Dallas offers a comprehensive range of non-invasive approaches and technologies used by physicians on the medical staff to diagnose heart disease .
Total number of non-invasive studies ( FY22 )
> 16,800
2D / 3D transesophageal echocardiogram
Used by some of the most advanced echocardiography labs in the world , three dimensional transesophageal echocardiograms are performed by specially trained team members and physicians on the medical staff at Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular - Dallas . Three dimensional echocardiography has proven to be superior to two dimensional echocardiography . Cardiac chamber volumes , congenital abnormalities and structural heart disease evaluations are more accurate and reproducible with limitations such as foreshortening a thing of the past , in some cases .
Non-invasive cardiac services offered :
• Exercise stress tests
• Holter monitoring
• Pharmacological / exercise stress tests
• Echocardiograms
• Transthoracic echocardiograms
• Transesophageal echocardiograms
The Dallas campus team , in collaboration with the non-invasive cardiac services team in Fort Worth , continued the weekly Sonographer Education Conference in fiscal year 2022 . This virtual educational event led by sonographers was created to support efforts to make knowledge and technique follow national standards and guidelines set forth by the American Society of Echocardiography .
Non-invasive vascular services at Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital - Dallas offers diagnostic testing and pre-procedure planning to assist physicians in diagnosing many conditions of the circulatory system , including blood vessel blockages and aneurysms . The entire non-invasive vascular team has received specialized training and certification in vascular imaging .
The non-invasive vascular lab is accredited by the IAC in peripheral venous , peripheral arterial and extracranial cerebrovascular duplex examinations . The department has been accredited for vascular testing since 2005 .
All sonographers are nationally registered , while physicians on the medical staff include boardcertified vascular surgeons , cardiologists and other specialists .
Types of non-invasive vascular procedures available :
• Extra-cranial cerebrovascular duplex scans
• Arterial ultrasound exams – Upper and lower extremity arterial duplex scans – Bypass graft scans – Pseudoaneurysm scans – Abdominal aorta aneurysm scans – Renal artery scans
• Physiologic arterial testing – Ankle-brachial index ( ABI ) – Segmental pressure tests
• Venous ultrasound exams – Upper and lower extremity vein mapping and scanning – Upper and lower extremity venous duplex
The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission ( IAC ) granted accreditation to the hospital ’ s non-invasive services echocardiography and vascular testing programs . An ongoing goal of the hospital is to exceed national standards and encourage the IAC to continuously evaluate national standards .
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TEAM
The team in the non-invasive services department is actively involved in elevating the profession , working on nationwide projects to standardize roles for advanced cardiac sonographers and protocols . The team on the Dallas campus has been known to lead others in best practices for patient experience as well as departmental processes . The department celebrated supervisor Jacqueline “ Jadi ” Spicer , BAS , RDCS , FASE , being elected as an esteemed Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography . Sonographers Sajjad Rahim , MBBS , ACS , RDCS , RVT , and Haji Mohammad , BS , MS , ACS , RDCS , RVT , became Advanced Cardiac Sonographers ( ACS ). To obtain the prestigious ACS credential , sonographers must have a minimum of seven years of experience and pass a thorough board exam . There are only 315 ( 2.2 %) sonographers with ACS out of approximately 14,000 cardiac sonographers in the country .
Sajjad Rahim ’ s “ Lost and Found : Identifying Right Pulmonary Embolus In-Transit Using the Suprasternal Notch Approach ” was accepted by the American Society of Echocardiography CASE Journal .
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