Triage patients with suspected pulmonary embolism in the emergency department using a portable ultrasound device

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 451-456

  Mansencal, Nicolas ^a,b   Vieillard Baron, Antoine ^a   Beauchet, Alain ^a   Farcot, Jean Christian ^a   El Hajjam, Mostafa ^a   Dufaitre, Ghislaine ^a   Brun Ney, Dominique ^a   Lacombe, Pascal ^a   Jardin, François ^a   Dubourg, Olivier ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Deep venous thrombosis; Echocardiography; Emergency department; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE;

EID: 43049117155     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00623.x     Document Type: Article

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