Echocardiography in the intensive care unit

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 207-213

  Voga, Gorazd ^a,b   Krivec, Bojan ^a  

^a General Hospital Celje   (Slovenia)

^b General Hospital Celje   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PATIENT MONITORING; REVIEW; TRAINING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033941811     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075198-200006000-00012     Document Type: Review

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