Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
We are excited to continue our Staff Spotlight series with CardioServ's first ever marketing intern Pratik Doshi! Pratik will be spending the summer with us working on our social media marketing, data analysis and promotions. His experience in information technology and data science will help...
Written by Angela Mills, BA, RVS, Judith Buckland MBA, RDCS, FASE
There is a lot of interest in ablation procedures for venous reflux. Many of our readers have expressed an interest in learning more about venous reflux. What is it? How do we correctly diagnose reflux disease? What is the pre, during and post procedures for venous ablation? We are happy...
Written by Andrea Fields MHA, RDCS
Last week we wrapped up our right heart blog series. Be sure to keep an eye out for our Right Heart E-Book that will be available soon!
This week, we are kicking off our mitral regurgitation (MR) blog series! The ASE, recently released updated guidelines, for the proper methods to quantify MR....
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE and Andrea Fields, MHA, RDCS
In earlier blogs we discussed calculating the left ventricular mass (LVM) via the 2D Linear Cubed Method with assumes an ellipse shape with a major/minor axis ratio of 2:1. We received a follow up question from a reader: “Can you please provide the reference for NOT using cube method...
Written by Judith Buckland, RDCS, FASE, MBA and Andrea Fields, MHA, RDCS
We recently posted a 2-part blog series on how to calculate LV Mass (LVM) and one of our readers provided some great feedback regarding the impact of height on LVM. We thought this reader’s comment was worth sharing and answering.
Reader: Using body surface area to normalize LVM will...