We are pleased to inform that the Echocardiographic Laboratory of Rapid Cardiac Diagnostics Unit of the Chair of Cardiology headed by prof. Piotr Lipiec MD PhD, within the Chair of Cardiology with prof. Jarosław D. Kasprzak Md PhD as its Head, received a prestigious, European accreditation of European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)/ European Society of Cardiology (ESC). It should be emphasised that the Rapid Cardiac Diagnostics Unit is the only Polish echocardiography centre to be found on the list of the units accredited by EACVI/ESC.

The accreditation, which confirms the Unit’s high competence of its team and the procedures they perform, is a prerequisite for participation in NORRE (Normal Reference Ranges for Echocardiography),  multi-centre research whose aim is to determine reference values for morphological indices and cardiac functioning in European population.