Echocardiography Department
Shamokin Area Community Hospital (SACH) is equipped with it's own echocardiography department.

Echocardiography allows physicians to visualize the anatomy, structure, and function of the heart in order to diagnose the presence and severity of heart valve problems or determine abnormal blood flow within the heart.

This window to the heart enables physicians to diagnose a number of cardiovascular diseases, so a patient can begin proper treatment.

An echocardiogram uses high-frequency sound waves to see all four chambers of the heart, the heart valves, blood vessels entering and leaving the heart and the sack around the heart.

SACH' s echocardiography department is equipped with a Sonos 5500 Cardiac Ultrasound machine, a digital echo lab and offers the convenience of having a study done at locally as cardiologists from Hershey Medical Center or Geisinger Medical Center interpret results.

The echocardiography department conducts pediatric studies not requiring sedation, which are read by pediatricians and cardiologists at Hershey Medical Center.

A physician referral is required for an echocardiogram.