Bedside limited echocardiography by the emergency physician is accurate during evaluation of the critically ill patient

Pediatrics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Pershad, Jay ^a,b   Myers, Sharon ^b   Plouman, Cindy ^b   Rosson, Cindy ^b   Elam, Krista ^b   Wan, Jim ^a   Chin, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b LE BONHEUR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Emergency medicine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEWBORN; OBSERVATION; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VEIN DIAMETER; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEDIATRICS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 16644391878     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-0881     Document Type: Article

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