Examination of the anxiety level in patients undergoing transesophageal echocardiography

Abstract

Anxiety level should be determined in this patients, and appropriate nursing care should be done for high anxiety score patients.

Paired surveys for patients and physiologists in echocardiography: a single-centre experience

“…Disappointingly, however, the response rate is low; though the numbers are similar to comparable patient and sonographer surveys (3, 10, 11, 13). This may be because quality assurance exercises like this can be ‘ difficult … time consuming … and sometimes contentious ’, as mentioned in the BSE Echocardiography Quality Framework (https://www.bsecho.org/education/echo-quality-framework/, accessed 17/11/18).…”

“…The 2016 British Society of Echocardiography’s (BSE) Echocardiography Quality Framework recommends patient satisfaction questionnaires in all TTE departments so that we always ask ourselves ‘ if we are kind to our patients ’ and ‘ what … our patients say about us ’ (https://www.bsecho.org/education/echo-quality-framework/, accessed 17/11/18). The BSE recognises that in busy TTE departments this can be ‘ difficult and time consuming ’, and whilst similar modalities have been studied, there is no literature discussing the feasibility and results of patient satisfaction surveys in TTE (2, 3). Furthermore, whilst the theoretical and hypothetical benefits of implementing the BSE framework have recently been reviewed, there are no published accounts of real-world attempts to implement the BSE Echocardiography Quality Framework in an echocardiography department (4, 5).…”