Clinical competence in echocardiography

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 313-322

  Thys, Daniel M ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKILL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0041369748     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000071129.00197.B7     Document Type: Review

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