Training guidelines for ultrasound: worldwide trends

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-373

  Bennett, Sean ^a  

^a CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical care; echocardiography; emergency medicine; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; NERVE BLOCK; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CRITICAL CARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 69849100175     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2009.08.001     Document Type: Review

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