The pocket echocardiograph: Validation and feasibility

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 759-764

  Culp, Benjamin C ^a   Mock, Jonathan D ^a   Chiles, Christopher D ^a   Culp, William C ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ejection fraction; hand carried ultrasound; imaging; transthoracic echocardiography; ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; POCKET ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955818321     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01125.x     Document Type: Article

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