This service is provided to all areas of the Hospital and Kentucky Clinic. The medical director and the director of Special Diagnostics work together to develop standards of care. The medical director works with the manager of the Adult Echo Lab to develop and implement policies and procedures. Services An average of 20 to 30 procedures a day are done, both for inpatients and outpatients. Most of the outpatient procedures are performed in the Kentucky Clinic.
Most activity occurs in the echocardiograms and the stress echocardiograms.
The patient population range in age between 18 and 90 years of age, with the major of patients between 40 and 60 years of age. Procedures are done the same day they are ordered. The order of patients is determined by the reason for the echocardiogram. This priority is determined by an RN or registry-eligible cardiac sonographer. If a procedure cannot be completed the day it is ordered it becomes first priority for the following day.