Transesophageal echocardiography interpretation: A comparative analysis between cardiac anesthesiologists and primary echocardiographers

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 302-309

  Mathew, Joseph P ^a   Fontes, Manuel L ^a   Garwood, Susan ^a   Davis, Elizabeth ^a   White, William D ^a   McCloskey, Gerard ^a   Fitch, Jane C K ^a   Afifi, Sherif ^a   Lee, David L ^a   Kraker, Phillip ^a   Rafferty, Terence D ^a   Barash, Paul G ^a   Gillam, Linda ^a   Prokop, Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; AORTA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGIST; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036154977     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-200202000-00013     Document Type: Article

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