St. Luke's Review Finds almost 30% Echocardiograms are Misread

Nearly 30% of diagnostic echocardiograms done at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center were misread by insufficiently trained cardiologists, resulting in more invasive, unnecessary procedures, according to an internal review done at the Milwaukee hospital.

In at least five of those cases, patients actually went into the operating room with a faulty diagnosis, although the problem was discovered before surgery was done.

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