Bedside echocardiography in the assessment of the critically ill

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Beaulieu, Yanick ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bedside ultrasonography; Cardiac function; Hand carried ultrasound; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARBON MONOXIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEFIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ARREST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; HYPOXEMIA; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART DISEASES; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247334256     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000260673.66681.AF     Document Type: Review

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