Meaningful care is achieved through meaningful nursing To ensure best outcomes for patient care, the nurse and physician must do everything appropriately. Unfortunately, a longstanding legal axiom is becoming a reimbursement axiom: If you didnât document it (in the EHR), you didnât do it.
Sometimes heart murmurs or ECG changes need the evaluation of a cardiologist. Cardiologists help victims of heart disease return to a full and useful life and also counsel patients about the risks and prevention of heart disease.
As with any âorgan specialist,â veterinary cardiologists are trained to evaluate heart diseases in any animal species (dog, horse, cat, cow, parrot, lizard, etc). Evaluation of cardiac diseases frequently requires the use of advanced diagnostic equipment or procedures such as: 1  Electrocardiography (ECG).