The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has just become the only adult hospital in Arkansas to have its echocardiography service accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL).
The accreditation will give each of the lab’s 500 patients a month the assurance that their echo procedures are performed at the highest standard that has been set by ICAEL with proper level of analysis.
Echocardiogram provides images of the heart using ultrasound or sonography. The department of Noninvasive Laboratory received this much coveted accreditation in three different areas that include adult transthoracic, adult transesophageal, and adult stress test.
All credit for the accreditation effort is due to Ibrahim Fahdi, M.D., director of the UAMS Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory and associate professor of medicine in the UAMS College of Medicine. Fahdi mentioned that the accreditation process required extra training of the lab’s sonographers. After this accreditation, there will be regular audits by the ICAEL and internal peer review of the imaging and cardiologists’ analyses of patients’ echocardiograms.
“There is no doubt that UAMS is the place to go when one needs a careful and thoughtful cardiac diagnosis. I am delighted and proud that our echocardiography lab is first in the state with this accreditation, “said James D. Marsh M.D, the chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine.
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