Hendrick Medical Center is a general medical and surgical hospital in Abilene, TX, with 391 beds. Survey data for the latest year available shows that 60,692 patients visited the hospital's emergency room. The hospital had a total of 15,601 admissions. Its physicians performed 4,762 inpatient and 4,247 outpatient surgeries.Echo Technologists specialize in using echocardiogram technology to produce images of patient's hearts. This field requires an associate's degree in medical sonography, and further specialization within the field is possible. Echo techs work with patients, technology, other medical staff, and may have other responsibilities like record keeping. Echocardiography is one of the specializations that may be chosen by an ultrasound technologists. Professionals in this field use sound wave projectors to project sound into human tissue in a conical or rectangular beam. The sound then echoes back to a receiver that returns data to a computer which is used to create an image of the tissue. Echo technicians may specialize in adult echocardiography, pediatric echocardiography or fetal echocardiography.
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Hendrick Medical Center is a general medical and surgical hospital in Abilene, TX, with 391 beds. Survey data for the latest year available shows that 60,692 patients visited the hospital's emergency room. The hospital had a total of 15,601 admissions. Its physicians performed 4,762 inpatient and 4,247 outpatient surgeries.Echo Technologists specialize in using echocardiogram technology to produce images of patient's hearts. This field requires an associate's degree in medical sonography, and further specialization within the field is possible. Echo techs work with patients, technology, other medical staff, and may have other responsibilities like record keeping. Echocardiography is one of the specializations that may be chosen by an ultrasound technologists. Professionals in this field use sound wave projectors to project sound into human tissue in a conical or rectangular beam. The sound then echoes back to a receiver that returns data to a computer which is used to create an image of the tissue. Echo technicians may specialize in adult echocardiography, pediatric echocardiography or fetal echocardiography.
