An evaluation of echo in life support (ELS): Is it feasible? What does it add?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-121

  Hayhurst, C ^a   Lebus, C ^a   Atkinson, Paul R ^a,b   Kendall, R ^a   Madan, R ^a   Talbot, J ^b   Ross, P ^b   Lewis, D ^c  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c IPSWICH HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78751591051     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.084202     Document Type: Article

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