Cardiologist Response Essay

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I shadowed a cardiologist named Arnulfo Granado. He uses echocardiograms to get an imaging of the heart. He receive patients with arrhythmia, atrophibulation, risk of heart attack, and any other heart threatening conditions. According to Mr. Granado, his job is fairly easy—he mostly have to know how to use TTE and TEE echocardiograms to take a good pictures of the patients’ hearts and measure the size of the valve, right atrium, etc. His work was very interesting to hear since looking at all kinds of heart with different conditions is very amusing to observe.
When I arrived to the Cardiologist Granado, he already had a patient almost an hour ago. He used an echocardiogram called TEE ultrasound probe to get more accurate imaging of the patient’s heart. Since he already used the probe into patient’s body, he had to wash and sanitize it in order for him to reuse it again for the next upcoming patient. When he was washing the probe, he went to the first station of the sink where the “dirty” and used equipment is washed. He would first wash with pure water, and …show more content…

When using an echocardiogram to take many pictures of the heart, you need patient to wait until the right moment since the heart constantly moves without rest. Also, sometimes the doctor arrives late to the scene, so the cardiologist have to wait until the doctor arrives before performing any procedures. Another quality is accuracy. When using the computer to measure and take a picture, the information must be accurate for the doctor or Cath Lab to use since numbers and position of the heart can help quickly pinpoint the cause of the abnormalities of the heart. Finally, dexterity is important. Most of the times, the cardiologist would use computers which need skillful handwork in pressing buttons and moving the mouse to measure or show different kind of image such as colored imaging where the blood flow can be seen and

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