Pitfalls
The main pitfall for the emergency physician is not carrying out a full risk stratification (including an echocardiogram) before declaring the patient suitable for discharge.
The main pitfall for the emergency physician is not carrying out a full risk stratification (including an echocardiogram) before declaring the patient suitable for discharge.
I think performing a formal Echo in ED is clearly very challenging and that statement gives the impression that all those patients will have to be admitted in order to get the Echo