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The
ICAEL Board Of Directors approved changes to the number of stress
and transthoracic cases required for accreditation. In addition
to changing the number of cases required, the Board also
eliminated the requirement to provide cardiac catheterization
correlation reports with every stress case.* On May 12,
2004, the ICAEL Board Of Directors made the following changes
to the stress case study requirement:
1
to 3 staff = 4 cases per lab
4
to 8 staff = 6 cases per lab
9
to 15 staff = 8 cases per lab
16
to 25 staff = 10 cases per lab
>25
staff = 12 cases per lab
These
cases must all be abnormal and represent examples of the best
work possible from the laboratory.
A
minor change has also been made to the number of transthoracic
cases required. For those laboratories with one to three
staff members, it will now be necessary to submit only four
cases instead of six. The representative disease mix has stayed
the same, and two cases must be aortic stenosis and two must
be left ventricular dysfunction.
*NOTE:
Laboratories are required to show ongoing correlation with other
diagnostic modalities on a regular basis including the cardiac
cath.
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