Targeted neonatal echocardiography in the neonatal intensive care unit: Practice guidelines and recommendations for training

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1057-1078

  Mertens, Luc ^a   Seri, Istvan ^b   Marek, Jan ^c   Arlettaz, Romaine ^d   Barker, Piers ^e   McNamara, Patrick ^a   Moon Grady, Anita J ^f   Coon, Patrick D ^g   Noori, Shahab ^b   Simpson, John ^h   Lai, Wyman W ⁱ  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^h EVELINA LONDON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Neonatal intensive care unit; Neonatologists; pediatric cardiologists; Preterm neonate; Term neonate

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN PERIOD; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION OF THE NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052995269     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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