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Specialist assessment and echocardiography

Posted: 25th April 2025

Stop 3: Specialist assessment and echocardiography

The duration of this video is 3 minutes 15 secs

Target audience

This video is suitable for all healthcare professionals

Video content

In this video we consider:

  • How quickly people should be referred for a specialist assessment and echocardiogram depending on their NTproBNP result
  • How to prepare people living with suspected heart failure about what will happen:
    • in a specialist assessment
    • when you have an echocardiogram
    • after the specialist assessment

Action planning

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Content published: 12 May 2025

Review date: 12 May 2027

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References

  1. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Quality standard [QS9]: Chronic heart failure in adults. Updated 10 January 2023.