Cardiac sonographer

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Cardiac sonographer is a medical profession of sonographers that specialize in the anatomy and function of the heart. It is a technical job that in the USA has traditionally required only an Associates degree in Echo, but more and more often is requiring a Bachelors Degree as the field gets more developed and complicated. Much like how a general sonographer would use sonography (ultrasound) to view a fetus inside a pregnant woman, cardiac sonographers use the same technology to examine and evaluate the heart; arrangement of the parts, muscle function, valve function and blood flow. Cardiac sonographers typically do not make diagnoses, but rather report all that they find to a medical doctor for further analysis.

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The American Society of Echocardiography Cardiovascular Credentialing International American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography

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