The pocket echocardiograph: A pilot study of its validation and feasibility in intubated patients

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-377

  Culp, Benjamin C ^a,c   Mock, Jonathan D ^a,b   Ball, Timothy R ^b   Chiles, Christopher D ^b   Culp Jr , William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MINIATURIZATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955071885     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01370.x     Document Type: Article

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