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25-Sep-2013 – 13:50hrs. Royal Gwent Cardiology for an Echocardiogram

Hi,

werll clearly it is worth turning up early as I arrived at 13.10hrs. checked into cardiology with the aim of then going for a coffee and back at 13:50hrs. for my appointment.

Sitting at the check in counter was Cathrine who was scheduled to see me as her next patient so it was straigh in!

Cathrine was great as she explained everything she could in detail as she did my echocardiagram.

The echocardiogram is a non intrusive sham of the heartwhere you lie on your left side semie prone and with her right hand the hand held scan is positioned in a number of different locations

to scan each chamber of the heart and to scan and measure the major blood vessels – even looking at the scans and having Cathrine explain them I found it quite hard to read and understand them!

They were a series of on screen pics. like this with additional measurements & pulse data.

Example of the type of pic from echocardiogram.

Shortly after I received the results from Philip Campbell:

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