Transthoracic echocardiography in obstetric anaesthesia and obstetric critical illness

International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 160-168

  Dennis, A T ^a  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; ASTHMA; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART OUTPUT; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LUNG EMBOLISM; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OBSTETRIC CRITICAL ILLNESS; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANT WOMAN; PULSE WAVE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79953680449     PISSN: 0959289X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2010.11.007     Document Type: Review

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