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CARDIOLOGY AND CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
STEM CELLS AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
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PATIENT CENTERED MYOCARDIAL
PERFUSION IMAGING
Yariela Herrera
Santo Tomas Hospital, Panama
Just like in many other medical fields, Nuclear Cardiology´s practice is
aiming to shift to a patient centered attention, where the laboratories
will focus on value based care rather than a volume based one. In the
1990´s and the past decade a 2.5 increase in Myocardial Perfusion
Imaging (MPI) volume raised awareness of the incremental in radiation
burden that was not necessarily impacting health care outcomes. Since
then, efforts have been made to provide a more personalized care to meet
the patient’s real necessities. In order to achieve the six core needs of
Health care identified by the Institute of Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology
laboratories can provide better care by assuring Patient safety; this
process can be achieved by first of all, identifying the candidates that
will benefit from imaging, Appropriateness Criteria for Nuclear Cardiac
imagingProcedures has beenpublished tosupport the referringannuclear
physicians. Also, empowering the patient, providing proper education and
informed consent of the nuclear cardiac imaging procedures will improve
health care. Last, but not least, the nuclear physician must considered
the MPI protocol that best fits the patient´s needs and not believe that
“one size fits all”. Taking the patient´s condition in consideration will allow
to decrease the radiation activity administered, to achieve better quality
images that will support the referring clinician in the best next step in the
patient´s management.
Yariela Herrera is a nuclear medicine physician.
She earned her medical doctor degree at Pan-
ama´s University Medical School. She complet-
ed her Internal Medicine Specialty at Hospital
Santo Tomás. Later she performed her Nucle-
ar Medicine fellowship at the School of Med-
icine and Health Sciences of El Colegio Mayor
Nuestra Señora del Rosario, located in Bogota,
Colombia. She conducted her training at La Fun-
dación Cardioinfantil – Instituto de Cardiología.
She is the Chief of Nuclear Medicine at Novalis
Treatment Center in Panama Pacífica Hospi-
tal and a Nuclear Medicine physician in Santo
Tomás Hospital.
BIOGRAPHY
Yariela Herrera, Biomed Res 2018, Volume 29 | DOI: 10.4066/biomedicalresearch-C2-005