A suggested curriculum in echocardiography for critical care physicians

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Mazraeshahi, Reza M ^a   Farmer, J Christopher ^a   Porembka, David T ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAINING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CRITICAL CARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING;

EID: 34547629922     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000270280.65365.AA     Document Type: Review

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