Current issues with emergency cardiac ultrasound probe and image conventions

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 278-284

  Moore, Chris ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedside ultrasound; Echo; Echocardiography; Education; Emergency echo; Emergency ultrasound; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEACHING; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 48949120276     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00052.x     Document Type: Review

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