Ultrasound image quality comparison between an inexpensive handheld emergency department (ED) ultrasound machine and a large mobile ED ultrasound system

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 778-781

  Blaivas, Michael ^a   Brannam, Larry ^a   Theodoro, Daniel ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medicine; emergency ultrasonography; portable ultrasound; ultrasound; ultrasound machine comparison

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; IMAGE QUALITY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042652968     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.12.030     Document Type: Article

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