Validation of a new bedside echoscopic heart examination resulting in an improvement in echo-lab workflow

Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 171-177

  Réant, Patricia ^a,b   Dijos, Marina ^a,b   Arsac, Florence ^a,b   Mignot, Aude ^a,b   Cadenaule, Fabienne ^a,b   Aumiaux, Annette ^a,b   Jimenez, Christine ^a,b   Dufau, Marilyne ^a,b   Prévost, Alain ^a,b   Pillois, Xavier ^a,b   Fort, Patrick ^a,b   Roudaut, Raymond ^a,b   Lafitte, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Echoscopy; Portable echocardiography; Sonographers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PATIENT TRANSFER; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; WORKFLOW; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79954631719     PISSN: 18752136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acvd.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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