Establishment of a course for focused assessment sonography for trauma

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 806-811

  Abu Zidan, Fikri M ^a   Dittrich, Kenneth ^c   Czechowski, Janusz J ^b   Kazzam, Elsadig E ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b AL AIN HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Division of Infectious Diseases   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EXPERIENCE; HEART INJURY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; THORAX INJURY; ULTRASOUND; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; UNIVERSITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRIAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 21344459826     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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