Competency information

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Gain appropriate consent for each procedure

Considerations

  • The importance of explaining the procedure for each procedure to the patient and gaining informed consent
  • The relevant procedures and requirements for patient conformance
  • Clinical indications for and contraindications to challenge testing
  • Principles, guidance and law with respect to informed consent

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome The trainee should produce evidence of completion of immediate or advanced life support training before undertaking any of the learning outcomes.
# 3 Outcome Under supervision, technically interpret the data and produce high-quality reports with respect to echocardiography, and be able to differentiate between artefact and physiological occurance