Bedside Echocardiographic Assessment for Trauma/Critical Care: The BEAT Exam

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Gunst, Mark ^a   Sperry, Jason ^a   Ghaemmaghami, Vafa ^a   O'Keeffe, Terence ^a   Friese, Randall ^a   Frankel, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA; ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DECUBITUS; HEART BEAT; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART STROKE VOLUME; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC VOLUME; CURRICULUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RESUSCITATION; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TRANSDUCERS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 49749099240     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.05.027     Document Type: Article

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