The 'Doppler-swoosh' test: A further modification to the 'swoosh' test [4]

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 600-601

  Schwartz, Donald ^a,b   Raghunathan, Karthik ^a   Han, David ^b  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSCULTATION; CANNULATION; CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STETHOSCOPE;

AIR; ANESTHESIA, CAUDAL; AUSCULTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDURAL SPACE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; NEEDLES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STETHOSCOPES; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34248147500     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2006.02163.x     Document Type: Letter

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