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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- My Marvellous Guide to having an Echo Pumping Marvellous
- What is an echocardiogram? British Heart Foundation
References
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE Guideline [NG106]: Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management Published 12 September 2018, last updated 3 September 2025.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Quality standard [QS9]: Chronic heart failure in adults. Published 29 June 2011, updated 3 September 2025.