How I do it: feasibility of a new ultrasound probe fixator to facilitate high quality stress echocardiography.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stress echocardiography (SE) has recently regained momentum as an important diagnostic tool for the assessment of both ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease. Performing SE during physical exercise is challenging due to a suboptimal patient position and vigorous movements of the patient's chest. This hampers a stable ultrasound position and reduces the diagnostic performance of SE. A stable ultrasound probe position would facilitate producing high quality images during continuous measurements. With Probefix (Usono, Eindhoven, The Netherlands), a newly developed tool to fixate the ultrasound probe to the patient's chest, stabilization of the probe during physical exercise is possible.

Implementation and results

The technique of SE with the Probefix and its' feasib

SUBMITTER: Salden OAE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5870734 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature