Focused training for goal-oriented hand-held echocardiography performed by noncardiologist residents in the intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1795-1799

  Vignon, Philippe ^a,b   Dugard, Anthony ^a,b   Abraham, Julie ^a   Belcour, Dominique ^a   Gondran, Guillaume ^a   Pepino, Frédéric ^a   Marin, Benoît ^a   François, Bruno ^a,b   Gastinne, Hervé ^a,c  

^a DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b LIMOGES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Intensive care; Transthoracic echocardiography; Two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DILATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DILATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CURRICULUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34748875243     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0742-8     Document Type: Article

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