ICU echocardiography: Should we use it in a heart beat?

Chest

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1121-1123

  Ketzler, Jonathan T ^a   McSweeney, Mary E ^a   Coursin, Douglas B ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART BEAT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SEPSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

EID: 0036428891     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.122.4.1121     Document Type: Article

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